α-Silicene as oxidation-resistant ultra-thin coating material

• Ali Kandemir,
• Fadil Iyikanat,
• Cihan Bacaksiz and
• Hasan Sahin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1808–1814, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.182

• in the presence of absorbed O atom. It appears that single-layer silicene is a quite promising material for ultra-thin oxidation-protective coating applications. Keywords: coating material; density functional theory; oxidization; silicene, silver; Introduction Surface protection against degradation

• surface quality [20][21]. For that reason, coating of silver for protection to oxidation is needed. In this study, we examined the coating performance of α-silicene against oxidation on the most preferable substrate metal for silicene, silver. In first step, we studied the adsorption of an oxygen atom and