As one of the most electrochemical energy storage devices, lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs)
remain the workhorse of the energy market due to their unparalleled advantages …

Research on silicon nanowires has developed rapidly in recent years. This can best be
inferred from the sharply increasing number of publications in this field. In 2008, more than …

We have developed a unifying tight-binding Hamiltonian that can account for the electronic
properties of recently proposed Si-based nanostructures, namely, Si graphene-like sheets …

The adsorption characteristics of alkali, alkaline-earth, and transition metal adatoms on
silicene, a graphene-like monolayer structure of silicon are analyzed by means of first …

In this Colloquium the theory of silicon nanowires is reviewed. Nanowires with diameters
below 10 nm are the focus, where quantum effects become important and the properties …

Using first principles calculations, we investigate the electronic properties of silicon
nanoribbons (SiNRs). We find that the armchair SiNRs can be metals or semiconductors …

Silicon nanomaterials and nanostructures exhibit different properties from those of bulk
silicon materials based on quantum confinement effects. They are expected to lead to the …

We review our recent discovery of silicene in the form of silicon nano-ribbons epitaxially
grown on silver (110) or (100) surfaces, which paves the way for the growth of graphene-like …

The study presents a life cycle assessment (LCA) of a next-generation lithium ion battery
pack using silicon nanotube anode (SiNT), nickel–cobalt-manganese oxide cathode, and …

Silicene, a monolayer of silicon atoms tightly packed into a two-dimensional honeycomb
lattice, is the challenging hypothetical reflection in the silicon realm of graphene, a one-atom …