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In the wide world of 2D materials, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) holds a special place due to its excellent characteristics. In addition to its thermal, chemical and mechanical stability, hBN demonstrates high thermal conductivity, low…
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The electronic structure and structural evolution of hydrogenated graphene are investigated by Raman spectroscopy with multiple excitations. The excitation energy dependent saturation effect on the ratio of integrated intensities of D and G…
The intercalation of metals beneath graphene offers a powerful route to stabilizing and protecting novel two-dimensional (2D) phases. The epitaxial growth of Pb monolayers on SiC(0001), combined with the relatively large spacing of the…
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We have predicted a new phase of nitrogen with octagon structure in our previous study, which we referred to as octa-nitrogene (ON). In this work, we make further investigation on its electronic structure. The phonon band structure has no…
Two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), and hBN, exhibit intriguing properties that are sensitive to their atomic-scale structures and can be further enriched through van der Waals (vdW)…
We use density functional theory based first-principles method to investigate the bandstructure and phase stability in the laterally grown hexagonal C$_x$(BN)$_{1-x}$, two-dimensional Graphene and $h$-BN hybrid nanomaterials, which were…
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