Mechanical, electronic and photocatalytic properties of binary Ge-based materials GeX<sub>2</sub> (X = B, C, N) with a pentagonal structure
Jiajia Liu, Yanqing Shen, Lingling Lv, Xu Gao, Xianghui Meng, Min Zhou, Xin Yang, Yu Zhang, Yangdong Zheng, Zhongxiang Zhou
Abstract
In this work, a novel series of Ge based pentagonal GeX 2 (X = B, C, N) nanosheets with anisotropic mechanical properties were predicted. Of these, penta -GeC 2 showed superior performance in photocatalytic hydrogen evolution.
Topics & Concepts
Materials sciencePhotocatalysisAnisotropyBinary numberElectronic structureHydrogenCrystallographyPhysical chemistryComputational chemistryPhysicsOrganic chemistryChemistryCatalysisOpticsArithmeticMathematics2D Materials and ApplicationsMXene and MAX Phase MaterialsGraphene research and applications