2D Boron: Boraphene, Borophene, Boronene
2D Boron: Boraphene, Borophene, Boronene
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10.1007/978-3-030-49999-0
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2021
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I. Matsuda;Kehui Wu
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作者:
I. Matsuda;Kehui Wu
Naming of a novel material is significant to capture wide interests in societies and to develop the material science in academic and technological fields. Layers of “graphene” or “silicene” may not have been investigated such vigorously if they had been called “2D carbon (C)” or “2D silicon (Si).” 2D boron (B) is named “boraphene” by the theoretical works much earlier than the experimental discoveries of a monoatomic (monatomic) sheet of boron. Following the rule that elemental 2D materials are named as X’enes where X is the element composing the 2D material, for example, phosphorene (P) or bismuthene (Bi), the name could have been “boronene.” With various candidates, the pioneering researchers gathered at an international conference and discussed the naming including the translations in Asian countries. Since “borophene” has been already used globally, we accept using this name. However, to keep our fairness in the nomenclature, we leave these nominations in the title of our book.Boron has been an important research subject in theoretical and computational chemistry because they form a wide variety of chemical bonds with each other, making a large number of allotropes even in two dimensions. Growths of the first boron sheet were achieved by the harmonic efforts of experimentalists and theoreticians who have individually played their parts to achieve perfect B flat (Fig. 1). Up to now, a large number of boron single atom sheets, borophene, have been proposed and some of them have already been synthesized on various substrates. The growths in wide area and unique electronic structures of borophenes have attracted interests in material science and also for industrial uses. Furthermore, there have been also many atomic sheets of the boron compounds, such as h-BN and HB, that have already shown rich functionalities for future technology. The theoretical and experimental works in investigating 2D materials of elemental boron and boron compounds are expanding rapidly. For further developments in the field, it has become important to extensively review the topics by the pioneering researchers. The book is composed of six chapters. Chapter 1 introduces a brief history of the theoretical works on boron allotropes in different dimensions: 3D (bulk), 2D (borphene), 1D (nanotube), and 0D (cluster, molecule). Recent computational works on predicting borophene are described in detail in Chap. 2. In Chaps. 3 and 4,