Two-dimensional (2D) materials are at the heart of many novel devices due to their unique
and often superior properties. For simplicity, 2D materials are often assumed to exist in their …

Incorporating heteroatoms into the graphene lattice may be used to tailor its electronic,
mechanical and chemical properties, although directly observed substitutions have thus far …

Substituting heteroatoms into graphene can tune its properties for applications ranging from
catalysis to spintronics. The further recent discovery that covalent impurities in graphene can …

Single atom impurities in graphene, substitutional silicon defects in particular, have been
observed to diffuse under electron beam irradiation. However, the relative importance of …

The recent discovery that impurity atoms in crystals can be manipulated with focused
electron irradiation has opened novel perspectives for top‐down atomic engineering. These …

The nonplanar character of graphene with a single carbon vacancy (SV) defect is
investigated utilizing a pyrene-SV model system by way of complete-active-space self …

The stability and reactivity of Pd6-nCun (n= 0− 3) clusters supported on pyridinic N-doped
graphene (PNG) were investigated using the auxiliary density functional theory method …

The study of novel materials for H2 storage is essential to consolidate the hydrogen as a
clean energy source. In this sense, the H2 adsorption on Pd4-nNin (n= 0–3) clusters …

This chapter introduces the atomic and electronic structure of graphene to provide the
reader the necessary basics for following the later chapters with advanced topics. Overviews …

In the last decade, the atomically-focused electron beams utilized in scanning transmission
electron microscopes (STEMs) have been shown to induce a broad set of local structural …