Recent advances, properties, fabrication and opportunities in two-dimensional materials for their potential sustainable applications

A Hayat, M Sohail, A El Jery, KM Al-Zaydi, S Raza… - Energy Storage …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Elemental two-dimensional (2D) materials, characterized by unique chemical,
physical, and electrical characteristics, now offer intriguing energy and catalysis application …

Highly crystalline 2D superconductors

Y Saito, T Nojima, Y Iwasa - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Recent advances in materials fabrication have enabled the manufacturing of ordered 2D
electron systems, such as heterogeneous interfaces, atomic layers grown by molecular …

Atomically thin half-van der Waals metals enabled by confinement heteroepitaxy

N Briggs, B Bersch, Y Wang, J Jiang, RJ Koch… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) metals may be key ingredients in next-generation
quantum and optoelectronic devices. However, 2D metals must be stabilized against …

Superconducting calcium-intercalated bilayer graphene

S Ichinokura, K Sugawara, A Takayama, T Takahashi… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We report the direct evidence for superconductivity in Ca-intercalated bilayer graphene
C6CaC6, which is regarded as the thinnest limit of Ca-intercalated graphite. We performed …

Ising Superconductivity and Quantum Phase Transition in Macro-Size Monolayer NbSe2

Y **ng, K Zhao, P Shan, F Zheng, Y Zhang, H Fu… - Nano …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have a range of unique
physics properties and could be used in the development of electronics, photonics …

Atomically thin gallium layers from solid-melt exfoliation

V Kochat, A Samanta, Y Zhang, S Bhowmick… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Among the large number of promising two-dimensional (2D) atomic layer crystals, true
metallic layers are rare. Using combined theoretical and experimental approaches, we …

Optimized 2D Bi2Se3 thickness for broadband, high-performance, self-powered 2D/3D heterojunction photodetectors with multispectral imaging capability

Y Han, S Jiao, L Chen, P Rong, S Ren, D Wang, S Gao… - Nano Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The hybrid 2D/3D heterostructure, which synergistically combine the high surface area and
superior surface properties of 2D materials with the volumetric advantages and mechanical …

Quantum phase transitions in two-dimensional superconductors: a review on recent experimental progress

Z Wang, Y Liu, C Ji, J Wang - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Superconductor–insulator/metal transition (SMT) as a paradigm of quantum phase transition
has been a research highlight over the last three decades. Benefit from recent developments …

Quantum Griffiths singularity of superconductor-metal transition in Ga thin films

Y **ng, HM Zhang, HL Fu, H Liu, Y Sun, JP Peng… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The Griffiths singularity in a phase transition, caused by disorder effects, was predicted more
than 40 years ago. Its signature, the divergence of the dynamical critical exponent, is …

Two-dimensional superconductors with atomic-scale thickness

T Uchihashi - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent progress in two-dimensional superconductors with atomic-scale thickness is
reviewed mainly from the experimental point of view. The superconducting systems treated …