Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 15, Issue 6, Pages 9851-9859Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c00781
Keywords
van der Waals materials; one-dimensional wires; layered heterostructures; photoluminescence; exfoliation
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- NSF [DMREF-1174625, DMR-1455050]
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Research has shown that one-dimensional van der Waals materials may retain their bulk properties, and certain 1D substances can be distinguished from bulk materials, with potential for various applications.
Two-dimensional (2D) materials derived from van der Waals (vdW)-bonded layered crystals have been the subject of considerable research focus, but their one-dimensional (1D) analogues have received less attention. These bulk crystals consist of covalently bonded mnultiatomn atomic chains with weak van der Waals bonds between adjacent chains. Using density-functional-theory-based methods, we find the binding energies of several 1D families of materials to be within typical exfoliation ranges possible for 2D materials. In addition, we compute the electronic properties of a variety of insulating, semiconducting, and metallic individual wires and find differences that could enable the identification of and distinction between 1D, 2D, and 3D forms during mechanical exfoliation onto a substrate. We find ID wires from chemical families of the forms PdBr2, SbSeI, and GePdS3 are likely to be distinguishable from bulk materials via photoluminescence. Like 2D vdW materials, we find some of these 1D vdW materials have the potential to retain their bulk properties down to nearly atomic film thicknesses, including the structural families of HfI3, and PNF2, a useful property for some applications including electronic interconnects. We also study naturally occurring bulk crystalline heterostructures of 1D wires and identify two families that are likely to be exfoliable and identifiable as individual 1D wire subcomponents.
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