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Newly fabricated monolayer phosphorene and its few-layer structures are expected to be promising for electronic and optical applications because of their finite direct band gaps and sizable but anisotropic electronic mobility. By…
We report the results of density functional theory (DFT) based calculations on monolayer and bilayer green phosphorene and their heterostructures with MoSe2. Both monolayer and bilayer green phosphorene are direct band gap semiconductors…
We report density functional study of alternate fullerene-like cage structures and finite closed capped single-wall nanotubes of aluminum nitride. The cages and nanotubes studied are modeled as Al24N24, Al28N28, Al32N32, Al36N36, Al48N48,…
Polycrystalline samples and single crystals of SmFeAs1-xPxO1-y were synthesized and grown employing different synthesis methods and annealing conditions. Depending on the phosphorus and oxygen content, the samples are either magnetic or…
Black phosphorus and its single-layer constituent, phosphorene, have emerged as promising two-dimensional materials with remarkable tribological properties. However, recent experimental investigations revealed that the their lubricating…
Recently, an experimental study developed an efficient way to obtain sulfur-doped gamma-graphdiyne. This study has shown that this new material could have promising applications in lithium-ion batteries, but the complete understanding of…
The synthesis of one-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures was realized recently, which opens up new possibilities for prospective applications in electronics and optoelectronics. The even reduced dimension will enable novel properties…
We report on a model of polymer nanocomposites with fibrous fillers which explicitly considers the microscopic filler features and replicates the composites as random distributions of particles interconnected via electron tunneling. By…
We have studied zig-zag boron nitride (BN) nanotubes doped with the Ni hexagonal-closepacked nanowire. The doped BN nanotubes are ferromagnetic metals with substantial magnetism. Some special magnetic properties resulting from the…
We use computational screening to systematically investigate the use of transition metal doped carbon nanotubes for chemical gas sensing. For a set of relevant target molecules (CO, NH3, H2S) and the main components of air (N2, O2, H2O), we…
Phosphorene, a two-dimensional (2D) analog of black phosphorous, has been a subject of immense interest recently, due to its high carrier mobilities and a tunable bandgap. So far, tunability has been predicted to be obtained with very high…
A nano-stitching method is proposed and investigated to modify graphene bilayers. Based this method, four types of low energy carbon allotropes, "wormhole graphene" allotropoes, are obtained and their structures, stabilities and electronic…
We investigate a previously unknown phase of phosphorus that shares its layered structure and high stability with the black phosphorus allotrope. We find the in-plane hexagonal structure and bulk layer stacking of this structure, which we…
The application of strain to 2D materials allows manipulating the electronic, magnetic, and thermoelectric properties. These physical properties are sensitive to slight variations induced by tensile and compressive strain and to the…
Carbon-based tubular materials have sparked a great interest for future electronics and optoelectronics device applications. In this work, we computationally studied the mechanical properties of nanotubes generated from popgraphene…
We investigate the deformation and failure mechanisms of phosphorene sheet and nanoribbons under uniaxial tensile strain along the zigzag direction using the density functional tight-binding method. Surprisingly, twin-like deformation…
We study the effect of doping in the suppression of tunneling observed in multi-walled nanotubes, incorporating as well the influence of the finite dimensions of the system. A scaling approach allows us to encompass the different values of…
Using Density Functional Theory (DFT) method we compute linear optical absorption spectra and nonlinear optical susceptibilities of hydrogen passivated armchair and zigzag Phosphorous Nanoribbons (aPNR and zPNR) as well as \alpha-phase…
Nonmonotonic bending-induced changes of fundamental band gaps and quasiparticle energies are observed for realistic nanoscale phosphorene nanosheets. Calculations using stochastic many-body perturbation theory (sGW) show that even slight…
Similar to the carbon nanotube fabricated from graphene sheet, a black phosphorus nanotube (BPNT) also can theoretically be produced by curling the rectangular single-layer black phosphorus (SLBP). In present study, the effect of thermal…