Recent developments in synthesis and nanofabrication technologies offer the tantalizing
prospect of realizing various applications from two-dimensional (2D) materials. A …

The quest for a clean, renewable and sustainable energy future has been highly sought for
by the scientific community over the last four decades. Photocatalytic water splitting is a very …

Based on first-principles calculations, we investigate in detail the structural stability and
electron-optical properties of monolayer PtSe 2, HfS 2, and two-dimensional (2D) PtSe 2/HfS …

Multifunctional devices are an indispensable choice to fulfil the increasing demand for
miniaturized and integrated circuit systems. However, bulk material-based devices …

Using first principle calculations we have investigated the structure stabilities, electronic and
optical properties of single layer planar penta-X 2 N 4 (X= Ni, Pd and Pt). According to the …

The construction of van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures is an efficient strategy for attaining
more desired specifications. According to first-principles calculations, the WSe 2/HfSe 2 vdW …

Topological insulators (TIs), as a two-dimensional (2D) material, have been widely used in
optoelectronic devices. However, further enhancements of output pulses in ultrafast fiber …

Molecular dynamics simulations are performed to investigate the misfit strain-induced
buckling of the transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) lateral heterostructures, denoted by …

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have become well-known due to
their versatile and tunable physical properties for potential applications, specifically on low …

Fabricating lateral heterostructures (HSs) and superlattices (SLs) provides a unique degree
of freedom for modulating the physical properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials by …