Abstract Elemental two-dimensional (2D) materials, characterized by unique chemical,
physical, and electrical characteristics, now offer intriguing energy and catalysis application …

Borophene, a 2D allotrope of boron and the lightest elemental Dirac material, is the latest
very promising 2D material owing to its unique structural and electronic characteristics of the …

Silicene, the ultimate scaling of a silicon atomic sheet in a buckled honeycomb lattice,
represents a monoelemental class of two-dimensional (2D) materials similar to graphene …

Abstract 2D materials have attracted considerable attention in the past decade for their
superlative physical properties. These materials consist of atomically thin sheets exhibiting …

Silicon‐based biomaterials play an indispensable role in biomedical engineering; however,
due to the lack of intrinsic functionalities of silicon, the applications of silicon‐based …

Silicene, a single‐layer‐thick silicon nanosheet with a honeycomb structure, is successfully
fabricated by the molecular‐beam‐epitaxy (MBE) deposition method on metallic substrates …

A new family of single‐atom‐thick 2D germanium‐based materials with graphene‐like
atomic arrangement, germanene and functionalized germanene, has attracted intensive …

After the discovery of graphene, two-dimensional nanomaterials with atomic thickness and
large lateral size have attracted tremendous research interest due to their high specific …

The energy dispersion of fermions or bosons vanishes in momentum space if destructive
quantum interference occurs in a frustrated Kagome lattice with only nearest-neighbor …

Energy storage devices such as supercapacitors and batteries have gained great attention
due to their high capacity, good recyclability, long life span and ease of use. There is a …