Growth of air stable bilayer silicene – A promising building block for electronic devices and electrodes of batteries –

Japan Science and Technology Agency and Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc. announced that they have succeeded in the synthesis of a bilayer silicene, which is a new allotrope of silicon, containing four-, five- and six-membered sp3 silicon rings. The bilayer silicene has high chemical stability by reducing the number of unsaturated silicon bonds.

The present research was published in an electric version of Nature Communications on 5th February 2016.

Title： Monolayer-to-bilayer transformation of silicenes and their structural analysis
Journal Name： Nature Communications
Authors： Ritsuko Yaokawa (TOYOTA CRDL, INC.), Tetsu Ohsuna (TOYOTA CRDL, INC.), Tetsuya Morishita (AIST), Yuichiro Hayasaka (Tohoku Univ.), Michelle J. S. Spencer (RMIT Univ.), Hideyuki Nakano (TOYOTA CRDL, INC., JST Presto)
Published online： 5 February 2016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10657