Pristine graphene has been considered one of the most promising materials because of its
excellent physical and chemical properties. However, various defects in graphene produced …

Silicene, a silicon analogue of graphene, has attracted increasing attention during the past
few years. As early as in 1994, the possibility of stage corrugation in the Si analogs of …

Hydrogen (H 2) energy has emerged as a principal contender for renewable green energy
applications because of the ultra-high energy density and natural abundance. The …

Inspired by the success of graphene, various two dimensional (2D) structures in free
standing (FS)(hypothetical) form and on different substrates have been proposed recently …

Phosphorene received considerable attention as gas/vapor sensors owing to its gas/vapor
interaction and its chemi-resistive properties. In this report, we investigated the adsorption …

The experimental realization of two-dimensional materials such as graphene, silicene and
germanene has attracted incredible interest ranging from understanding their physical …

Abstract 2D materials like phosphorene have shown significant potential for hydrogen
storage applications because of its large specific surface area and tuneable energetics. In …

Graphene is expected to revolutionize several application areas ranging from portable
energy conversion and storage to miniaturized biosensors for medical applications. In this …

The non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) and density functional theory (DFT) are
applied to scrutinize the capability of ε-phosphorene nanosheet based device to detect the …

The robustness of topological materials against disorder and defects is presumed but has
not been demonstrated explicitly in realistic systems. In this work, we use state-of-the-art …