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20152021
most citedMonolayer MXenes: promising half-metals and spin gapless semiconductors

497 citations · 1k across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 25 cited

Superconductivity in graphite-diamond hybrid

Yanfeng Ge, Kun Luo, Yong Liu +8

Search for new high-temperature superconductors and insight into their superconducting mechanism are of fundamental importance in condensed matter physics. The discovery of near-ro…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 16 cited

Superconducting LaP2H2 with graphenelike phosphorus layers

Xing Li, Xiaohua Zhang, Aitor Bergara +3

Novel structural building blocks in compounds could induce interesting physical and chemical properties. Although phosphorus tends to form very different motifs, the existence of l…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 23 cited

Spin-flip-driven giant magneto-transport in A-type antiferromagnet NaCrTe2

Junjie Wang, Jun Deng, Xiaowei Liang +8

For anisotropic magneto-resistance (AMR) effect, its value synergistically depends on the magnitudes of magneto-resistance (MR) and magneto-crystalline anisotropy energy (MAE) simu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 156 cited

Prediction of high-Tc superconductivity in ternary lanthanum borohydrides

Xiaowei Liang, Aitor Bergara, Xudong Wei +7

The study of superconductivity in compressed hydrides is of great interest due to measurements of high critical temperatures (Tc) in the vicinity of room temperature, beginning wit…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 102 cited

Discovery of carbon-based strongest and hardest amorphous material

Shuangshuang Zhang, Zihe Li, Kun Luo +22

Carbon is likely the most fascinating element of the periodic table because of the diversity of its allotropes stemming from its variable (sp, sp2, and sp3) bonding motifs. Explora…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 30 cited

Helium Induced Nitrogen Salt at High Pressure

Jingyu Hou, Xiao-Ji Weng, Artem R. Oganov +6

The energy landscape of helium-nitrogen mixtures is explored by ab initio evolutionary searches, which predicted several stable helium-nitrogen compounds in the pressure range from…

physics.comp-ph2019★ 25 cited

Strain tunable pudding-mold-type band structure and thermoelectric properties of SnP monolayer

Shasha Wei, Cong Wang, Guoying Gao

Recent studies indicated the interesting metal-to-semiconductor transition when layered bulk GeP3 and SnP3 are restricted to the monolayer or bilayer, and SnP3 monolayer has been p…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 40 cited

Formation of copper boride on Cu(111)

Chengguang Yue, Xiao-Ji Weng, Guoying Gao +9

Boron forms compounds with nearly all metals, with notable exception of copper and other group IB and IIB elements. Here, we report an unexpected discovery of ordered copper boride…

cond-mat.supr-con2019★ 32 cited

Superconductivity in Li-intercalated 1T-SnSe2 driven by electric-field gating

Yanpeng Song, Xiaowei Liang, Jiangang Guo +3

Creating carrier reservoirs in layered compounds can effectively tune the carrier density, which often induces a variety of emergent properties. Based on solid-ion-conductor gating…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 33 cited

Magnetic borophenes from evolutionary search

Meng-Hong Zhu, Xiao-Ji Weng, Guoying Gao +9

A computation methodology based on ab initio evolutionary algorithms and the spin-polarized density functional theory was developed to predict two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materia…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 22 cited

Fermi Surface and Carriers Compensation of pyrite-type PtBi Revealed by Quantum Oscillations

Lingxiao Zhao, Liangcai Xu, Huakun Zuo +3

Large non-saturating magnetoresistance has been observed in various materials and electron-hole compensation has been regarded as one of the main mechanisms. Here we present a deta…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 497 cited

Monolayer MXenes: promising half-metals and spin gapless semiconductors

Guoying Gao, Guangqian Ding, Jie Li +3

Half-metals and spin gapless semiconductors are promising candidates for spintronic applications due to the complete (100%) spin polarization of electrons around the Fermi level. B…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 1 cited

Thermoelectric transport in monolayer SnSe from first-principles calculations

Guangqian Ding, Guoying Gao, KailunYao

Electron-crystal and phonon-glass are regarded as two essential factors for ideal thermoelectric materials, which require both an enhanced electronic transport and a depressed phon…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

High-efficient thermoelectric materials: The case of orthorhombic IV-VI compounds

Guangqian Ding, Guoying Gao, Kailun Yao

Improving the thermoelectric efficiency is one of the greatest challenges in materials science. The recent discovery of excellent thermoelectric performance in simple orthorhombic…