Discovered more than a decade ago, graphene has opened the door to countless new possibilities, including the investigation of other materials so thin, they are considered to be two-dimensional. One ...

Two years ago, Northwestern Engineering’s Mark Hersam discovered a way to stabilize exfoliated black phosphorus — or phosphorene — a layered semiconductor that chemically degrades in open air but ...

This strategy enabled a novel phosphorene derivative to be discovered – fluorinated phosphorene (FP). The highly electronegative fluorine adatoms in FP act as a protective umbrella to prevent FP from ...

Phosphorene, unlike other commonly used 2D materials, such as graphene and molybdenum disulfide, possesses structural anisotropy, in which it exhibits different physical properties along axes in ...

Phosphorene is a two-dimensional material, so it is usually constructed of layers of single atoms. It is an allotrope of phosphorus that was first worked within its single-layer form by several ...

Scientists from Manchester University show that phosphorene is superconductive when electrons are supplied by intercalated alkali metal atoms. Unlike for graphene, the type of intercalating alkali ...

DENVER — Phosphorus has joined carbon as the only elements to be separated into sheets each a single atom thick, researchers announced March 7 at a meeting of the American Physical Society. The newly ...

US and Chinese scientist have made transistors from a graphene-like substance called black phosphorus, which is being dubbed phosphorene in its few-layer form. Just like graphene, phosphorus can form ...

Phosphorene, a new 2D material that is a crystalline allotrope of phosphorus, could be ideal for making photodetectors that work across a range of wavelengths, from the visible to the near infrared.

Some of the most famous scientific discoveries happened by accident. From Teflon and the microwave oven to penicillin, scientists trying to solve a problem sometimes find unexpected things. This is ...

A research team used organic chemistry to covalently react a single-molecule-thick layer onto phosphorene to stabilize its reactivity to open air. Two years ago, Northwestern University's Mark Hersam ...