Emerging applications of elemental 2D materials

NR Glavin, R Rao, V Varshney, E Bianco… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As elemental main group materials (ie, silicon and germanium) have dominated the field of
modern electronics, their monolayer 2D analogues have shown great promise for next …

Recent progress on phase engineering of nanomaterials

Q Yun, Y Ge, Z Shi, J Liu, X Wang, A Zhang… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
As a key structural parameter, phase depicts the arrangement of atoms in materials.
Normally, a nanomaterial exists in its thermodynamically stable crystal phase. With the …

Pentagon-based 2D materials: Classification, properties and applications

Y Shen, Q Wang - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Since penta-graphene (PG), a two-dimensional (2D) carbon allotrope exclusively
composed of five-membered rings, was proposed in 2015, a great deal of effort has been …

PdSe2: Pentagonal Two-Dimensional Layers with High Air Stability for Electronics

AD Oyedele, S Yang, L Liang, AA Puretzky… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Most studied two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit isotropic behavior due to high lattice
symmetry; however, lower-symmetry 2D materials such as phosphorene and other …

Synthesis of borophenes: Anisotropic, two-dimensional boron polymorphs

AJ Mannix, XF Zhou, B Kiraly, JD Wood, D Alducin… - Science, 2015 - science.org
At the atomic-cluster scale, pure boron is markedly similar to carbon, forming simple planar
molecules and cage-like fullerenes. Theoretical studies predict that two-dimensional (2D) …

Two-dimensional diamonds from sp2-to-sp3 phase transitions

F Lavini, M Rejhon, E Riedo - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
The ability to change material properties through phase engineering has long been sought,
with the goal of ad hoc tunability of the physical and chemical properties of the transformed …

Two-dimensional Janus PtSSe for photocatalytic water splitting under the visible or infrared light

R Peng, Y Ma, B Huang, Y Dai - Journal of materials chemistry A, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, two-dimensional Janus materials have attracted increasing research interest due
to their particular structure and great potential in electronics, optoelectronics and …

Penta‐PdPSe: A New 2D Pentagonal Material with Highly In‐Plane Optical, Electronic, and Optoelectronic Anisotropy

P Li, J Zhang, C Zhu, W Shen, C Hu, W Fu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Due to their low‐symmetry lattice characteristics and intrinsic in‐plane anisotropy, 2D
pentagonal materials, a new class of 2D materials composed entirely of pentagonal atomic …

Puckered penta-like PdPX (X= O, S, Te) semiconducting nanosheets: first-principles study of the mechanical, electro-optical, and photocatalytic properties

A Bafekry, MM Fadlallah, M Faraji… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The atomic, electronic, optical, and mechanical properties of penta-like two-dimensional
PdPX (X= O, S, Te) nanosheets have been systematically investigated using density …

Research progress on penta-graphene and its related materials: Properties and applications

MA Nazir, A Hassan, Y Shen, Q Wang - Nano Today, 2022 - Elsevier
The most direct and efficient strategy in designing and synthesizing new materials is to
change the structural building units, which could lead to a new paradigm shift. Penta …