Since the discovery of buckminsterfullerene over 30 years ago, sp2-hybridised carbon
nanomaterials (including fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and graphene) have stimulated new …

Conspectus After the discovery of graphene and the development of powerful exfoliation
techniques, experimental preparation of two-dimensional (2D) crystals can be expected for …

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanotubes offer a unique platform to explore the
properties of TMD materials at the one-dimensional limit. Despite considerable efforts thus …

Elastic properties of materials are an important factor in their integration in applications.
Chemical vapor deposited (CVD) monolayer semiconductors are proposed as key …

We report on measurements of the stiffness and breaking strength of monolayer MoS2, a
new semiconducting analogue of graphene. Single and bilayer MoS2 is exfoliated from bulk …

Continuous tuning of material properties is highly desirable for a wide range of applications,
with strain engineering being an interesting way of achieving it. The tuning range, however …

Employing the random phase approximation we investigate the binding energy and Van der
Waals (vdW) interlayer spacing between the two layers of bilayer transition metal …

With the rapid development of portable electronics, such as e-paper and other flexible
devices, practical power sources with ultrathin geometries become an important …

We calculate from first principles the electronic structure and optical properties of a number
of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayer heterostructures consisting of MoS 2 layers …

The stacking orders in layered hexagonal boron nitride bulk and bilayers are studied using
high-level ab initio theory [local second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory (LMP2)] …