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Today, 2D semiconductor materials have been extended into the nitrogen group: phosphorene, arsenene, antimonene and even nitrogene. Motivated by them, based upon first-principles density functional calculations, we propose a new…
The central question in the field of 2D materials is how a material behaves when it is patterned at nanometer scale with different edge geometries. Due to the anisotropy inherent in the puckered structure, black phosphorene nanostructures…
In the purpose of expanding the family of two-dimensional materials, we predict the existence of two-dimensional octa-structure of nitrogen group elements that are composed of squares and octagons in first-principle method based on density…
In a very recent accomplishment, the two-dimensional form of Biphenylene network (BPN) has been successfully fabricated [Fan et al., Science, 372, 852-856 (2021)]. Motivated by this exciting experimental result on 2D layered BPN structure,…
We perform a comprehensive first-principles study of the electronic properties of phosphorene nanoribbons, phosphorene nanotubes, multilayer phosphorene, and heterobilayers of phosphorene and two-dimensional (2D) transition metal…
Searching for materials with single atom-thin as well as planar structure, like graphene and borophene, is one of the most attractive themes in two dimensional materials. Herein, using density functional theory calculations, we have…
The allotropes of a new layered material, phosphorus carbide (PC), have been predicted recently and a few of these predicted structures have already been successfully fabricated. Herein, by using first-principles calculations we…
New allotropes of two-dimensional (2D) GaP and InP binary compounds were predicted from the structural optimization and dynamical stability analysis in the framework of the density functional calculations. These stabilized GaP and InP…
Non-metal nitrides are an exciting field of chemistry, featuring a significant number of compounds that can possess outstanding material properties. This characteristic relies on maximizing the number of strong covalent bonds, with…
Because of its novel physical properties, two-dimensional materials have attracted great attention. From first-principle calculations and vibration frequenceis analysis, we predict a new family of two-dimensional materials based on the idea…
The discovery of new and stable two-dimensional (2D) materials with exotic properties is essential for technological advancement. Inspired by the recently reported penta-PdPSe, we proposed penta-NiPS as a new member of the penta-2D…
In recent years, single element two-dimensional atom crystal materials have aroused extensive interest in many applications. Blue phosphorus, successfully synthesized on Au substrate by molecular beam epitaxy not long ago, shows unusual…
The existence of a new two dimensional CN2 structure was predicted using ab-initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) and density-functional theory calculations. It consists tetragonal and hexagonal rings with C-N and N-N bonds arranged in a…
Edge atomic configuration often plays an important role in dictating the properties of finite-sized two-dimensional (2D) materials. By performing ab initio calculations, we identify a highly stable zigzag edge of phosphorene, which is the…
This paper presents a systematic study of two and one dimensional honeycomb structure of boron nitride (BN) using first-principles plane wave method. Two-dimensional (2D) graphene like BN is a wide band gap semiconductor with ionic bonding.…
First-principles investigations on the edge energies and edge stresses of single-layer hexagonal boron-nitride (BN) are presented. The armchair edges of BN nanoribbons (BNNRs) are more stable in energy than zigzag ones. Armchair BNNRs are…
Two-dimensional polyaniline sheet has been recently synthesized and found that it is a semiconductor with indirect band gap. Polyaniline nanoribbons decomposed from two-dimensional polyaniline sheet (C3N sheet) are investigated using…
Two dimensional (2D) materials with a finite band gap and high carrier mobility are sought after materials from both fundamental and technological perspectives. In this paper, we present the results based on the particle swarm optimization…
Phosphorene, a monolayer of black phosphorus (BP), is an elemental two-dimensional material with interesting physical properties, such as high charge carrier mobility and exotic anisotropic in-plane properties. To fundamentally understand…
Beryllium polynitrides, BeN4 is a novel layered material, which has been most recently fabricated under high pressure (Phys. Rev. Lett. 126(2021), 175501). As a new class of 2D materials, in this work we conduct first-principles…