Xenes

The discovery of silicene dates back to 2012 and since then other Xenes were subsequently created with synthetic methods. The portfolio of Xenes includes different chemical elements of the periodic table and hence the related honeycomb-like lattices show a wealth of electronic and optical properties that can be successfully exploited for applications. Xenes includes all the relevant information about Xenes reported so far with focus on the emerging materials and new trends. The primary goal of the book is to include full descriptions of each Xene type by leading experts in the area. Each chapter will provide the key principles, theories, methods, experiments, and potential applications. The book also reviews the key challenges for synthetic 2D materials such as characterization and modelling, synthesis, and integration strategies. Xenes is suitable for materials scientists and engineers, physicists, chemists working in academia and R&D in industry. Introduces the most important Xenes including silicene, germanene, borophene, gallenene, phosphorene and more Provides the fundamental principles, theories, experiments and applications for the most relevant synthetic 2D materials Addresses the techniques for the characterization, synthesis and integration of synthetic 2D materials