Polymorphism in post-dichalcogenide two-dimensional materials

H Bergeron, D Lebedev, MC Hersam - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit a wide range of atomic structures, compositions, and
associated versatility of properties. Furthermore, for a given composition, a variety of …

Germanium‐based monoelemental and binary two‐dimensional materials: Theoretical and experimental investigations and promising applications

F Zhao, Y Feng, W Feng - InfoMat, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Two‐dimensional (2D) materials based on group IVA elements have attracted
extensive attention owing to their rich chemical structures and novel properties. This …

The ground state of epitaxial germanene on Ag (111)

K Zhang, MC Hanf, R Bernard, Y Borensztein… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) honeycomb lattices beyond graphene, such as germanene, appear
very promising due to their outstanding electronic properties, such as the quantum spin Hall …

Transition metal-decorated germanene for NO, N2 and O2 sensing: A DFT study

AN Sosa, JE Santana, A Miranda, LA Pérez… - Surfaces and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Detecting hazardous and toxic gasses is important to avoid harmful effects on human health
and two-dimensional nanostructures have emerged as candidate materials for sensing or …

Tracing the structural evolution of quasi-freestanding germanene on Ag (111)

L Kesper, JA Hochhaus, M Schmitz, MGH Schulte… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
In the last decade, research on 2D materials has expanded massively due to the popularity
of graphene. Although the chemical engineering of two-dimensional elemental materials as …

Growth of germanium-silver surface alloys followed by in situ scanning tunneling microscopy: Absence of germanene formation

K Zhang, R Bernard, Y Borensztein, H Cruguel… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Theoretical studies have shown that new physical properties such as tunable gap openings
or quantum spin Hall effects could be expected from group-IV graphene analogs (silicene …

Combined surface x-ray diffraction and density functional theory study of the germanene/Al(111)- structure

K Zhang, MC Hanf, D Sciacca, R Bernard… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Several studies have reported the possible growth of germanene on various metal surfaces.
However, the exact structure of the layers formed upon evaporation at or above room …

Structure of germanene/Al (111): A two-layer surface alloy

K Zhang, D Sciacca, MC Hanf, R Bernard… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Unlike silicene, for which the demonstration of its existence has been done through
numerous independent studies, the possibility of growing epitaxial germanene remains …

Synthesis and characterization of a pure 2d antimony film on au (111)

ED Cantero, EA Martinez… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The synthesis of antimonene and related 2D Sb films on top of metallic substrates has
recently become a very active subject due to the strong spin–orbit coupling and the …

Atomic insights into single-layer and bilayer germanene on Al (111) surface

DA Muzychenko, AI Oreshkin, AD Legen'ka… - Materials Today …, 2020 - Elsevier
The artificial postgraphene two-dimensional (2D) materials termed 2D-Xenes, which consist
of atoms arranged in atomically thin sheets with a honeycomb lattice, have received …