Micrometre-scale single-crystalline borophene on a square-lattice Cu(100) surface

First-Principles Particle-Swarm Structure Calculations on Metal Substrate Modulated Monolayer to Bilayer Borophene Crystalline Structures toward Nanoelectronics

“…9,15,16 Over the past decades, extensive theoretical works have reported the stable structures and possible growth mechanism of monolayer borophene on the metal substrate. 17−21 Meanwhile, a series of monolayer borophenes have been synthesized experimentally on multiple metal substrates, such as β 12 and χ 3 sheet on Ag(111), 22 δ 3 on Al(111), 23 χ 6 on Ir(111), 24 β 13 on Cu(100), 25 borophenes with hexagon hole density η of 1/5 on Cu(111), 26 and α 5 (η = 1/12) on Au(111), 27 confirming the substrate-modulated polymorphic structures of monolayer borophene.…”

Enhanced electron transport and self-similarity in quasiperiodic borophene nanoribbons with line defects

“…[2][3][4][5] As an emerging 2D material, borophene has been predicted to show structural polymorphism, [6][7][8] and several phases including two planar ones called ν 1/6 and ν 1/5 boron sheets have been fabricated in recent experiments. [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] The ν 1/6 and ν 1/5 borophenes exhibit intriguing attributes, e.g. Dirac fermion, [19][20][21] mechani-cal flexibility, 22,23 and conventional superconductivity.…”

Macroscopic Single-Phase Monolayer Borophene on Arbitrary Substrates

“…12,13 Synthesis efforts are often aimed at production of large-area Bo, pushing Bo research closer to applications in, e.g., supercapacitors, flexible memory devices, photodetectors and batteries. 11,[14][15][16] For example, full monolayer Bo coverage has been reached on Ag(111), 17 Cu(111), 9 Cu(100) 18 and Ir(111). 13,19 Moreover, the monolayer limit has been surpassed by the synthesis of a full Bo bilayer on Ru(0001) 20 and Cu(111).…”

“…Therefore, Bo research has been notably accelerated by a development of different synthesis methods that enabled fabrication of samples suitable for experimentation. These methods include molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) from solid boron rods, − sonochemical exfoliation from boron powders, , and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) from gaseous diborane precursor. , Synthesis efforts are often aimed at production of large-area Bo, pushing Bo research closer to applications in, for example, supercapacitors, flexible memory devices, photodetectors, and batteries. ,− For example, a full monolayer Bo coverage has been reached on Ag(111), Cu(111), Cu(100), and Ir(111). , Moreover, the monolayer limit has been surpassed by the synthesis of a full Bo bilayer on Ru(0001) and Cu(111) . In all these cases, Bo samples were restricted in size only by the size of their substrates.…”