Phosphorene, an emerging two-dimensional material, has received considerable attention
due to its layer-controlled direct bandgap, high carrier mobility, negative Poisson's ratio and …

The concept of topological energy bands and their manifestations have been demonstrated
in condensed matter systems as a fantastic paradigm toward unprecedented physical …

The first-principles band theory paradigm has been a key player not only in the process of
discovering new classes of topologically interesting materials, but also for identifying salient …

Over the past decade, two-dimensional semiconductors (2DSCs) have aroused wide
interest due to their extraordinary electronic, magnetic, optical, mechanical, and thermal …

Topological phases with insulating bulk and gapless surface or edge modes have attracted
intensive attention because of their fundamental physics implications and potential …

The extensive research of two-dimensional layered materials has revealed that valleys, as
energy extrema in momentum space, could offer a new degree of freedom for carrying …

The study of topological insulators has generally involved search of materials that have this
property as an innate quality, distinct from normal insulators. Here we focus on the possibility …

Encouraged by its excellent electronic, optical, and mechanical properties, two-dimensional
nanomaterials, including graphene, germanene, silicene, phosphorene, transition metal …

Highly stable antimonene, as the cousin of phosphorene from group-VA, has opened up
exciting realms in the two-dimensional (2D) materials family. However, pristine antimonene …

The family of two-dimensional transition metal carbides, so called MXenes, has recently
found new members with ordered double transition metals M 2′ M ″C 2, where M′ and M …