Adsorption and diffusion characteristics of lithium on hydrogenated α- and β-silicene

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

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1742–1748, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.175

• barriers show that α- and β-silicene are promising platforms for Li-storage applications. Keywords: density functional theory; diffusion; Li atom; silicene; ultra-thin materials; Introduction Following the first synthesis of graphene, the family of two-dimensional (2D) materials have drawn extraordinary