Investigating the Electronic Properties of 2D Materials and Layered Materials

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to notify you that I have the pleasure of serving as the Guest editor of a Special Issue of Materials aimed at giving a comprehensive overview of the state of the art of the research addressing the fascinating electronic properties harbored by two-dimensional materials, and their close relatives, layered materials.

Worldwide efforts in the last two decades have permitted us to design and create countless novel 2D materials, multi-layer stackings and layered materials through different approaches. The energy dispersion of electronic states in the reciprocal space, together with non-trivial topology, electronic correlations, or the interaction with the lattice, give birth to a variety of exotic electronic properties, which can be finely tuned through the composition and the atomic arrangement of the atoms in the materials, by the twist angle in few-layer stackings, or through the application of electric and magnetic fields.

 This Special Issue aims to gather reviews and original research papers reflecting the rich diversity of the current research experimentally and theoretically addressing the electronic properties of 2D materials and layered materials. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: 2D topological insulators and semimetals, flatband materials, magnetism, density waves and superconductivity in 2D and layered materials, transition metal mono- and dichalcogenides, non-layered 2D materials, borophene and borophene derivatives, van der Waals heterostructures and 2D and layered alloys. Contributions addressing the fabrication and characterization of devices taking advantage of electronic properties of 2D and layered materials or their influence on their optical or chemical properties will be also welcome.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Antoine Fleurence
Guest Editor

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