Electronic and optical properties of strained graphene and other strained 2D materials: a review

GG Naumis, S Barraza-Lopez… - Reports on Progress …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This review presents the state of the art in strain and ripple-induced effects on the electronic
and optical properties of graphene. It starts by providing the crystallographic description of …

Elemental two-dimensional nanosheets beyond graphene

X Kong, Q Liu, C Zhang, Z Peng, Q Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The great success of graphene has encouraged the fast development of other two-
dimensional (2D) nanosheets, which have attracted extensive attention in different scientific …

Polymorphism in post-dichalcogenide two-dimensional materials

H Bergeron, D Lebedev, MC Hersam - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit a wide range of atomic structures, compositions, and
associated versatility of properties. Furthermore, for a given composition, a variety of …

Beyond graphene: Clean, hydrogenated and halogenated silicene, germanene, stanene, and plumbene

F Bechstedt, P Gori, O Pulci - Progress in Surface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
The fascinating electronic and optoelectronic properties of freestanding graphene and the
possible inclusion of novel two-dimensional (2D) systems in silicon-based electronics have …

Unexpected giant-gap quantum spin Hall insulator in chemically decorated plumbene monolayer

H Zhao, C Zhang, W Ji, R Zhang, S Li, S Yan… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect of two-dimensional (2D) materials features edge states that
are topologically protected from backscattering by time-reversal symmetry. However, the …

Emerging elemental two-dimensional materials for energy applications

Z Wu, J Qi, W Wang, Z Zeng, Q He - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Elemental two-dimensional (2D) materials possess distinct properties and superior
performances across a multitude of fundamental and practical research fields. Although a …

Tensile strains give rise to strong size effects for thermal conductivities of silicene, germanene and stanene

YD Kuang, L Lindsay, SQ Shi, GP Zheng - Nanoscale, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Based on first principles calculations and self-consistent solution of the linearized Boltzmann–
Peierls equation for phonon transport approach within a three-phonon scattering framework …

[HTML][HTML] Stability and synthesis of 2D metals and alloys: a review

T Wang, M Park, Q Yu, J Zhang, Y Yang - Materials Today Advances, 2020 - Elsevier
As a newcomer to the family of two-dimensional (2D) material, 2D metals and alloys have
seen rapid development in recent years because of their unique physical and chemical …

Structural phase transition and material properties of few-layer monochalcogenides

M Mehboudi, BM Fregoso, Y Yang, W Zhu… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
GeSe and SnSe monochalcogenide monolayers and bilayers undergo a two-dimensional
phase transition from a rectangular unit cell to a square unit cell at a critical temperature T c …

From a normal insulator to a topological insulator in plumbene

XL Yu, L Huang, J Wu - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Plumbene, similar to silicene, has a buckled honeycomb structure with a large band gap (∼
400 meV). All previous studies have shown that it is a normal insulator. Here, we perform …