Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Two-dimensional antimonene single crystals grown by van der Waals epitaxy

  • Jianping Ji,
  • Xiufeng Song,
  • Jizi Liu,
  • Zhong Yan,
  • Chengxue Huo,
  • Shengli Zhang,
  • Meng Su,
  • Lei Liao,
  • Wenhui Wang,
  • Zhenhua Ni,
  • Yufeng Hao,
  • Haibo Zeng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13352
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Several two-dimensional materials have been synthesized to date, yet elemental materials, consisting of individual atomic species, are still scarce. Here, the authors synthesize few-layer, monocrystalline polygons of antimonene via van der Waals epitaxy growth.