Piezocatalysis has gradually attracted the interest of researchers owing to their excellent
ability to improve the separation and migration of photoelectrons and holes. The alternating …

As a consequence of rapid industrialization throughout the world, various environmental
pollutants have begun to accumulate in water, air, and soil. This endangers the ecological …

Two-dimensional materials with out-of-plane (OOP) ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties
are highly desirable for the realization of ultrathin ferro-and piezoelectronic devices. We …

Chemical vapor deposition has been most recently employed to fabricate centimeter-scale
high-quality single-layer MoSi 2 N 4 (Science; 2020; 369; 670). Motivated by this exciting …

Piezoelectric nanomaterials that can generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) by
piezoelectric polarization under an external mechanical force have emerged as an effective …

Graphene is very popular because of its many fascinating properties, but its lack of an
electronic bandgap has stimulated the search for 2D materials with semiconducting …

The discovery of 2D layered MoSi2N4 and WSi2N4 without knowing their 3D parents by
chemical vapor deposition in 2020 has stimulated extensive studies of 2D MA2Z4 system …

Piezoelectricity in 2D van der Waals materials has received considerable interest because
of potential applications in nanoscale energy harvesting, sensors, and actuators. However …

Since the first successful synthesis of graphene just over a decade ago, a variety of two-
dimensional (2D) materials (eg, transition metal-dichalcogenides, hexagonal boron-nitride …

Recently, piezoelectric thin films including zinc oxide (ZnO) and aluminium nitride (AlN)
have found a broad range of lab-on-chip applications such as biosensing, particle/cell …