Catalysis is at the heart of modern-day chemical and pharmaceutical industries, and there is
an urgent demand to develop metal-free, high surface area, and efficient catalysts in a …

Borophene stands out uniquely among Xenes with its metallic character, Dirac nature,
exceptional electron mobility, thermal conductivity, and Young's moduli—surpassing …

Borophene, a 2D allotrope of boron and the lightest elemental Dirac material, is the latest
very promising 2D material owing to its unique structural and electronic characteristics of the …

Dirac materials are characterized by the emergence of massless quasiparticles in their low-
energy excitation spectrum that obey the Dirac Hamiltonian. Known examples of Dirac …

Graphitic carbon nitrides (gCN) exhibit striking properties and features including structurally
flexible, thermally stable, exposed edges/atoms with localized electron centres, and tunable …

Since the intriguing and inspiring discovery of graphene-enhanced Raman scattering
(GERS) in 2010, graphene and graphene-based substrates have attracted significant …

Methylation is an important epigenetic DNA modification that governs gene expression. The
genomic level of methylated DNA and its derivatives may serve as important indicators for …

This article is to capture some of the important developments in the rapidly growing areas of
laser-based manufacturing and materials processing and also to describe important …

Xenes, ie, monoelemental two-dimensional atomic sheets, are promising for sensitive and
ultrafast sensor applications owing to exceptional carrier mobility; however, most of them …

Two-dimensional gallium nitride (2D GaN) with a large direct bandgap of~ 5.3 eV, a high
melting temperature of~ 2500° C, and a large Young's modulus~ 20 GPa developed for …