A bright future for engineering piezoelectric 2D crystals

PC Sherrell, M Fronzi, NA Shepelin… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The piezoelectric effect, mechanical-to-electrical and electrical-to-mechanical energy
conversion, is highly beneficial for functional and responsive electronic devices. To fully …

Piezoelectric materials: Properties, advancements, and design strategies for high-temperature applications

Y Meng, G Chen, M Huang - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Piezoelectronics, as an efficient approach for energy conversion and sensing, have a far-
reaching influence on energy harvesting, precise instruments, sensing, health monitoring …

Piezo‐Photocatalytic Synergy in BiFeO3@COF Z‐Scheme Heterostructures for High‐Efficiency Overall Water Splitting

ML Xu, M Lu, GY Qin, XM Wu, T Yu… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven overall water splitting is an ideal way to generate renewable energy while still
challenging. For the first time, this work combined covalent organic frameworks (COFs) and …

Group-IV (A) Janus dichalcogenide monolayers and their interfaces straddle gigantic shear and in-plane piezoelectricity

P Nandi, A Rawat, R Ahammed, N Jena, A De Sarkar - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Inversion symmetry in the 1T-phase of pristine dichalcogenide monolayer MX2 (M= Ge, Sn;
X= S, Se) is broken in their Janus structures, MXY (M= Ge, Sn; X≠ Y= S, Se), which induces …

Interfacial hybridization of Janus MoSSe and BX (X= P, As) monolayers for ultrathin excitonic solar cells, nanopiezotronics and low-power memory devices

MK Mohanta, A De Sarkar - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, we explored the interfacial two-dimensional (2D) physics and significant
advancements in the application prospects of MoSSe monolayer when it is combined with a …

Co-doped 3D petal-like ZnIn2S4/GaN heterostructures for efficient removal of chlortetracycline residue from real pharmaceutical wastewater

Y He, J Shi, Q Yang, Y Tong, Z Ma, LB Junior… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
It is of utmost priority to remedy environmental pollution caused by antibiotics contamination
through visible-light driven catalysts. However, exploring of photocatalysts simultaneous …

Enhanced Piezoelectric Response of Layered In2Se3/MoS2 Nanosheet-Based van der Waals Heterostructures

S Yuan, WF Io, J Mao, Y Chen, X Luo… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) piezoelectricity has been extensively addressed in recent years,
which leads to great potential applications in advanced smart devices. However, the vertical …

Two-dimensional BAs/GeC van der waals heterostructures: A widely tunable photocatalyst for water splitting and hydrogen production

MR Islam, MS Islam, MY Zamil, N Ferdous… - Journal of Physics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Of late, two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) have gained tremendous
attention for water-splitting to produce hydrogen (H 2) fuel. This work demonstrates various …

Giant tunability in electrical contacts and doping via inconsiderable normal electric field strength or gating for a high-performance in ultrathin field effect transistors …

MK Mohanta, A De Sarkar - Applied Surface Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Electrical contacts arising at the van der Waals interface between boron pnictide (h-BP, h-
BAs) and graphene monolayers have been systematically investigated using density …

Coupled spin and valley polarization in monolayer and valley-contrasting physics at the interface

MK Mohanta, A De Sarkar - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Despite extensive studies on coupled spin and valley physics, occurrence of these
properties is currently limited to transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and graphene …