Pentagon-based 2D materials: Classification, properties and applications

Y Shen, Q Wang - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Since penta-graphene (PG), a two-dimensional (2D) carbon allotrope exclusively
composed of five-membered rings, was proposed in 2015, a great deal of effort has been …

Research progress on penta-graphene and its related materials: Properties and applications

MA Nazir, A Hassan, Y Shen, Q Wang - Nano Today, 2022 - Elsevier
The most direct and efficient strategy in designing and synthesizing new materials is to
change the structural building units, which could lead to a new paradigm shift. Penta …

Penta-graphene: a promising anode material as the Li/Na-ion battery with both extremely high theoretical capacity and fast charge/discharge rate

B **ao, Y Li, X Yu, J Cheng - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2016 - ACS Publications
Recently, a new two-dimensional (2D) carbon allotrope named penta-graphene was
theoretically proposed (Zhang, S.; et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2015, 112, 2372) and has …

Penta-BCN: A new ternary pentagonal monolayer with intrinsic piezoelectricity

K Zhao, Y Guo, Y Shen, Q Wang… - The journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Going beyond conventional hexagonal sheets, pentagonal 2D structures are of current
interest due to their novel properties and broad applications. Herein, for the first time, we …

Thermoelectric penta-silicene with a high room-temperature figure of merit

Z Gao, JS Wang - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2020 - ACS Publications
Silicon is one of the most frequently used chemical elements of the periodic table in
nanotechnology (Goodilin et al., ACS Nano 2019, 13, 10879–10886). Two-dimensional …

Epitaxial growth and structural properties of silicene and other 2D allotropes of Si

L Masson, G Prévot - Nanoscale Advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Since the breakthrough of graphene, considerable efforts have been made to search for two-
dimensional (2D) materials composed of other group 14 elements, in particular silicon and …

2D cairo pentagonal PdPS: Air‐stable anisotropic ternary semiconductor with high optoelectronic performance

R Duan, Y He, C Zhu, X Wang, C Zhu… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Pentagonal 2D materials as a new member in the 2D material family have attracted
increasing attention due to the exotic physical properties originating from the unique Cairo …

Silicene: Genesis, remarkable discoveries, and legacy

ME Dávila, G Le Lay - Materials Today Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
In the realm of two-dimensional (2D) materials, besides the ones initially peeled from
lamellar crystals, the artificial emerging elemental ones, called Xenes, appear as strong …

Double-pentagon silicon chains in a quasi-1D Si/Ag (001) surface alloy

C Hogan, A Sette, VA Saroka, S Colonna… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Silicon surface alloys and silicide nanolayers are highly important as contact materials in
integrated circuit devices. Here we demonstrate that the submonolayer Si/Ag (001) surface …

Emerging two-dimensional silicene nanosheets for biomedical applications

Y You, C Yang, X Zhang, H Lin, J Shi - Materials Today Nano, 2021 - Elsevier
Advanced and tremendous research in two-dimensional (2D) materials have unlocked
valuable capabilities that lead to a new materials era. Silicene, as a rising-star 2D material …