Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Pressure-driven phase transitions and reduction of dimensionality in 2D silicon nanosheets

  • Gil Chan Hwang,
  • Douglas A. Blom,
  • Thomas Vogt,
  • Jaejun Lee,
  • Heon-Jin Choi,
  • Sen Shao,
  • Yanming Ma,
  • Yongjae Lee

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07832-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Silicon nanostructures have important applications as functional materials. Here the authors investigate the structural transformations of 2D silicon nanosheets under compression and decompression, showing the irreversible formation of 1D silicon nanowires.