Issue 17, 2018

Doping-stabilized two-dimensional black phosphorus

Abstract

Two-dimensional (2D) black phosphorus (BP) has attracted broad interests but remains to be synthesized. One of the issues lies in its large number of 2D allotropes with highly degenerate energies, especially 2D blue phosphorus. Here, we show that both nitrogen and hole-carrier doping can lift the energy degeneracy and locate 2D BP in a deep global energy minimum, while arsenic doping favours the formation of 2D blue phosphorus, attributed to a delicate interplay between s–p overlapping and repulsion of lone pairs. Chemically inert substrates, e.g. graphene and hexagonal boron nitride, can be synergic with carrier doping to stabilize the BP further over other 2D allotropes, while frequently used metal substrates severely reduce the stability of 2D BP. These results not only offer new insight into the structural stability of 2D phosphorus but also suggest a promising pathway towards the chemical synthesis of 2D BP.

Graphical abstract: Doping-stabilized two-dimensional black phosphorus

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
17 Jan 2018
Accepted
02 Apr 2018
First published
02 Apr 2018

Nanoscale, 2018,10, 7898-7904

Doping-stabilized two-dimensional black phosphorus

X. Xuan, Z. Zhang and W. Guo, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 7898 DOI: 10.1039/C8NR00445E

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