Two-Dimensional and Nanostructured Materials for Electronic and Energy Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2023) | Viewed by 271
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the past decade, we have witnessed a surge of intense research on graphene and other two-dimensional (2D) nanostructured materials ranging from insulators, semiconductors, and semimetals to metals. 2D materials possess unique van der Waals layered structure, which can be thinned down to monolayer with dangling-bond free surface and weak electrostatic screening characteristics, rendering their fundamental properties distinguishable from those of their bulk counterparts. Arising from their extraordinary physical, chemical, electrical, and optical properties, 2D materials have been utilized over a wide range of fields ranging from electronics, optoelectronics, valleytronics, and spintronics to the fast-emerging twistronics, demonstrating vastly superior performance to traditional silicon-based devices.
Additionally, the techniques for preparation of 2D materials have experienced significant development, including the examples of initial magic-tape exfoliation, liquid exfoliation, physical vapor deposition, pulsed laser deposition, and chemical vapor deposition (CVD). So far, most of the 2D semiconducting materials, such as MoS2 and WS2, can be manufactured by CVD at 12-inch wafer-scale using CMOS-compatible temperatures, suggesting their great potential for industrial application.
This Special Issue will present the recent advances in 2D materials and their potential applications, focusing on emerging trends in the synthesis and characterizations of 2D materials and investigations of their fundamental intrinsic properties as well as device applications. Original articles and review papers will cover the following topics though are not limited to them: first-principle calculations of 2D materials, exfoliation and synthesis techniques of 2D materials, characterizations of the intrinsic properties of 2D materials, modification and interface engineering approaches for 2D materials, interactions of 2D materials with organic and inorganic molecules, 2D van der Waals heterostructures. Contributions on 2D devices in electronics and energy are strongly encouraged. Studies on the applications of 2D materials in optoelectronics, valleytronics, spintronics, twistronics and other related fields are also welcome.
I kindly invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.
Prof. Dr. Du Xiang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- 2D materials
- graphene
- heterostructures
- synthesis and characterization
- first-principle calculations
- intrinsic properties
- interface engineering
- device applications
- electronics
- energy
- optoelectronics
- valleytronics
- spintronics
- twistronics
- medicine
