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20202025
most citedStep-edge epitaxy for borophene growth on insulators

38 citations · 63 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 6 cited

Atomic-resolution structural and spectroscopic evidence for the synthetic realization of two-dimensional copper boride

Hui Li, Qiyuan Ruan, Cataldo Lamarca +3

Since the first realization of borophene on Ag(111), two-dimensional (2D) boron nanomaterials have attracted significant interest due to their polymorphic diversity and potential f…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 19 cited

Unidirectional domain growth of hexagonal boron nitride thin films

Abhijit Biswas, Qiyuan Ruan, Frank Lee +16

Two-dimensional van der Waals (2D-vdW) layered hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) has gained tremendous research interest over recent years due to its unconventional domain growth morp…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 38 cited

Step-edge epitaxy for borophene growth on insulators

Qiyuan Ruan, Luqing Wang, Ksenia V. Bets +1

Borophene, a monoatomic layer of boron atoms, stands out among two-dimensional (2D) materials, with its versatile properties of polymorphism, metallicity, plasmonics, superconducti…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Stability and electronic properties of two-dimensional gallium

Alex Kutana, Qiyuan Ruan, Jun-Jie Zhang +2

Two-dimensional metals offer intriguing possibilities to explore metallicity and other related properties in systems with reduced dimensionality. Here, following recent experimenta…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Nano-thermodynamics of chemically induced graphene-diamond transformation

Sergey V. Erohin, Qiyuan Ruan, Pavel B. Sorokin +1

Nearly two-dimensional diamond, or diamane, is coveted as ultrathin -carbon film with unique mechanics and electro-optics. The very thinness () makes it possible for the…