Focus on silicene and other 2D materials

Focus on 2D materials beyond graphene.

Advanced Scanning Probe Microscopy of Graphene and Other 2D Materials

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene and metal dichalcogenides, are an emerging class of materials, which hold the promise to enable next-generation electronics. Features such as average flake size, shape, concentration, and density of defects are among the most significant properties affecting these materials’ functions. Because of the nanoscopic nature of these features, a tool pe...

Progress in the materials science of silicene

In its freestanding, yet hypothetical form, the Si counterpart of graphene called silicene is predicted to possess massless Dirac fermions and to exhibit an experimentally accessible quantum spin Hall effect. Such interesting electronic properties are not realized in two-dimensional (2D) Si honeycomb lattices prepared recently on metallic substrates where the crystal and hybrid electronic struc...

Focus on nanospace materials

1 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan National Institute for Materials Science, Japan E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] Nanospace materials, including metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), zeolites, mesoporous materials, and layered compounds, are attrac...

Focus on Materials Nanoarchitectonics.