Symmetry Breaking in Graphene: Topics and Advances
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 180
Special Issue Editor
Interests: materials science; synthesis; characterization; modilling and simulation; harvesting energy; environmental science; condensed matter
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Symmetry breaking in graphene systems has profound impacts on its physical, chemical, mechanical, and optical properties. For instance, symmetry breaking in graphene can induce a change in band gap energy. Symmetry breaking in artificial graphene systems, by assembling coronene molecules on metal surfaces, can be achieved via various strategies; for example, (a) differentiating the on-site energy of two sublattices of a honeycomb lattice and (b) uniaxially compressing a honeycomb lattice. The first one breaks the inversion symmetry, while the second one merges the Dirac cones; in both cases, the local density of states undergoes characteristic changes.
This Special Issue focuses on the topics and advances of symmetry breaking in graphene and its related materials systems and studies their applications. Please note that all submissions must correspond to the scope of Symmetry.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical research in as much detail as possible. We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Lhaj El Hachemi Omari
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- symmetry
- breaking
- honeycomb lattice
- graphene systems
- physical properties
- uniaxial compressing
- atomic coordinates
- mirror symmetry
- dynamical diffraction theory
- energy gap
- Dirac point
- monolayer graphene
- multilayer graphene
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