The ability to change material properties through phase engineering has long been sought,
with the goal of ad hoc tunability of the physical and chemical properties of the transformed …

Two-dimensional diamond, or diamane, is an ultrathin film with unique physical properties
that combine the record values of the bulk crystal with the exciting features caused by the …

Notwithstanding the numerous density functional studies on the chemically induced
transformation of multilayer graphene into a diamond-like film carried out to date, a …

New materials are the backbone of their technology‐driven modern civilization and at
present carbon nanostructures are the leading candidates that have attracted huge research …

Carbon is an element with extremely versatile bonding properties and theoretical
calculations have suggested the possible existence of several hundred structural allotropes …

Atomically thin graphene exhibits fascinating mechanical properties, although its hardness
and transverse stiffness are inferior to those of diamond. So far, there has been no practical …

Two-dimensional (2D) materials and their moiré superlattices represent a new frontier for
quantum matter research due to the emergent properties associated with their reduced …

Despite the advanced stage of diamond thin-film technology, with applications ranging from
superconductivity to biosensing, the realization of a stable and atomically thick two …

We explore how a few-layer graphene can undergo phase transformation into thin diamond
film under reduced or no pressure, if the process is facilitated by hydrogenation of the …

Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) Janus materials with opposing components and properties
on two sides have recently attracted fevered attention from various research fields for use as …