Borophene as a prototype for synthetic 2D materials development

AJ Mannix, Z Zhang, NP Guisinger, BI Yakobson… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The synthesis of 2D materials with no analogous bulk layered allotropes promises a
substantial breadth of physical and chemical properties through the diverse structural …

Two-dimensional boron: structures, properties and applications

Z Zhang, ES Penev, BI Yakobson - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Situated between metals and non-metals in the periodic table, boron is one of the most
chemically versatile elements, forming at least sixteen bulk polymorphs composed of …

Scalable production of few-layer boron sheets by liquid-phase exfoliation and their superior supercapacitive performance

H Li, L Jing, W Liu, J Lin, RY Tay, SH Tsang, EHT Teo - Acs Nano, 2018 - ACS Publications
Although two-dimensional boron (B) has attracted much attention in electronics and
optoelectronics due to its unique physical and chemical properties, in-depth investigations …

Converting benzene into γ-graphyne and its enhanced electrochemical oxygen evolution performance

Q Li, C Yang, L Wu, H Wang, X Cui - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the first use of benzene as a precursor in mechanosynthesis of γ-graphyne.
Through the solid–liquid interfacial reaction with CaC2, gram-scale γ-graphyne can be …

A self-powered photodetector based on two-dimensional boron nanosheets

D Ma, R Wang, J Zhao, Q Chen, L Wu, D Li, L Su… - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Owing to their intriguing characteristics, the ongoing pursuit of emerging mono-elemental
two-dimensional (2D) nanosheets beyond graphene is an exciting research area for next …

Epitaxial growth of borophene on substrates

W Li, K Wu, L Chen - Progress in Surface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Borophene, a two-dimensional (2D) planar boron sheet, has attracted dramatic
attention for its unique physical properties that are theoretically predicted to be different from …

Recent progress in boron nanomaterials

T Kondo - Science and Technology of advanced MaTerialS, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Various types of zero, one, and two-dimensional boron nanomaterials such as nanoclusters,
nanowires, nanotubes, nanobelts, nanoribbons, nanosheets, and monolayer crystalline …

Build Borophite from Borophenes: A Boron Analogue Graphite

M Wang, W Yi, H Song, F Wu, Y Fu, X Liu, Z Cui - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Unlike graphene derived from graphite, borophenes represent a distinct class of synthetic
two-dimensional materials devoid of analogous bulk-layered allotropes, leading to covalent …

Nanoscopic Characterization Reveals that Bulk Amorphous Elementary Boron Is Composed of a Ladder-like Polymer with B4 as the Structural Unit

S Zhang, Z Li, Y Bao, S Lu, Z Gong, H Qian, Z Lu… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
As the initially discovered allotrope of boron, amorphous elementary boron (AE-B) has been
reported for more than two centuries. Several possible structures of AE-B have been …

Two-dimensional semiconducting boron monolayers

SG Xu, XT Li, YJ Zhao, JH Liao, WP Xu… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The two-dimensional boron monolayers were reported to be metallic both in previous
theoretical predictions and experimental observations. Unexpectedly, we have first found a …