Progress and innovation of nanostructured sulfur cathodes and metal-free anodes for room-temperature Na–S batteries

• Marina Tabuyo-Martínez,
• Bernd Wicklein and
• Pilar Aranda

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 995–1020, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.75

• antimonene, silicene, and phosphorene [73][83][84]. These sheets are usually integrated with graphene and other conducting carbon nanomaterials to afford mechanical support, flexibility, and electrical conductivity, which results in high capacity values (500–2000 mAh·g−1) over at least 100 cycles [73][75][76

Silicene, germanene and other group IV 2D materials

• Patrick Vogt

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2665–2667, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.248

• the properties of 2D layers composed of elements that do not belong to group IV of the periodic table, for example, borophene [9], blue phosphorous (phosphorene) [10], or antimonene [11], most of which also show buckling. The aim of this Thematic Series was to address the theoretical background, the

An implementation of spin–orbit coupling for band structure calculations with Gaussian basis sets: Two-dimensional topological crystals of Sb and Bi

• Sahar Pakdel,
• Mahdi Pourfath and
• J. J. Palacios

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1015–1023, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.94

• insulator, and to mono- and multilayer Sb(111) (also known as antimonene), the former being a trivial semiconductor and the latter a topological semimetal featuring topologically protected surface states. Keywords: antimonene; electronic structure; Sb few-layers; spin–orbit coupling (SOC); topological

• makes even pseudopotential basis sets (without nodal structure) suitable for band structure calculations where SOC plays an important role. Results and Discussion: Elemental topological Materials, Sb and Bi 2D Crystals Antimonene Antimonene, a term generically used for Sb(111) in 2D form, has been

• those expectations closer to reality [33]. It was demonstrated that it is possible to isolate few or even single stable layers of antimonene, in ambient conditions. Moreover, new procedures such as liquid exfoliation and epitaxial growth methods were reported. Theoretical works on antimonene can be

Two-dimensional silicon and carbon monochalcogenides with the structure of phosphorene

• Dario Rocca,
• Ali Abboud,
• Ganapathy Vaitheeswaran and
• Sébastien Lebègue

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1338–1344, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.135

• experimentally [17][18]. Also, arsenene and antimonene [19], SiS [20], and SnS, SnSe, GeS, and GeSe [21][22] compounds with a crystal structure similar to the one of phosphorene were investigated by ab initio calculations. The reliability of ab initio calculations to predict and characterize new two dimensional