Recent progress on two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures for photocatalytic water splitting: a selective review

C Zhang, K Ren, S Wang, Y Luo… - Journal of Physics D …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Hydrogen production through photocatalytic water splitting is being developed swiftly to
address the ongoing energy crisis. Over the past decade, with the rise of graphene and …

Electronic, spintronic, and piezoelectric properties of new Janus (, and ) monolayers

N Ghobadi, S Gholami Rudi, S Soleimani-Amiri - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Two-dimensional (2D) Janus materials due to their asymmetric structures show fascinating
spintronic and piezoelectric properties making them a research hot spot in recent years. In …

Twist-assisted optoelectronic phase control in two-dimensional (2D) Janus heterostructures

S Kar, P Kumari, MV Kamalakar, SJ Ray - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) Janus materials and their Van der Waals
heterostructures (vdWHs) have emerged as a new class of intriguing semiconductor …

First-principle study on quintuple-atomic-layer Janus MTeSiX2 (M= Mo, W; X= N, P, As) monolayers with intrinsic Rashba spin-splitting and Mexican hat dispersion

A Rezavand, N Ghobadi - Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 2022 - Elsevier
In this research, inspired by the electron's spin nature and its unique induced phenomena,
we probe into the structural, electronic and spintronic features of Janus MTeSiX 2 (M= Mo …

Enhanced performance of Janus XMSiY2 (X= S, Se; M= Mo, W; and Y= N, P) monolayers for photocatalytic water splitting via strain engineering

SG Rudi, S Soleimani-Amiri, A Rezavand… - Journal of Physics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this article, using first-principles calculations, we propose XMSiY 2 (X= S, Se; M= Mo, W;
and Y= N, P) monolayers as a Janus form of MA 2 Z 4 family and investigate their electronic …

Surface-functionalization induced spintronic and photocatalytic features in group-III monochalcogenide monolayers: A first-principles study

N Ghobadi, A Rezavand, S Soleimani-Amiri… - Applied Surface …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, based on first principles calculations, we propose functionalization of group-III
monochalcogenides with halogen atoms to form Janus MXY (M= Al, Ga, In; X= Se, Te; Y= Br …

First principles prediction of two-dimensional Janus STiXY 2 (X= Si, Ge; Y= N, P, As) materials

Z Gao, X He, W Li, Y He, K Xiong - Dalton Transactions, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Since the successful experimental synthesis of MoSi2N4, the “MA2Z4 family” has attracted
the interest of researchers from many fields due to its excellent physical and chemical …

Theoretical investigations of Janus WSeTe monolayer and related van der Waals heterostructures with promising thermoelectric performance

C Wang, YX Chen, G Gao, K Xu, H Shao - Applied Surface Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Recently, two-dimensional (2D) Janus MXY monolayers have received much
attention due to their novel properties induced by the antisymmetric structures. In this work …

Electronic and spintronic properties of Janus ( = Mo, W) monolayers

A Rezavand, N Ghobadi, B Behnamghader - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Very recently, Janus two-dimensional (2D) materials have gathered enormous attention due
to possessing unique properties caused by the lack of out-of-plane symmetry. Herein, based …

Biaxial strain modulated electronic structures of layered two-dimensional MoSiGeN 4 Rashba systems

P Li, X Wang, H Wang, Q Tian, J Xu, L Yu… - Physical Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The two-dimensional (2D) MA2Z4 family has received extensive attention in manipulating its
electronic structure and achieving intriguing physical properties. However, engineering the …