Nanomaterials

Chapter 2Synthesis and Characterization of Phosphorene: A Novel 2D Material

Sima Umrao¹, Narsingh R. Nirala², Gaurav Khandelwal³ and Vinod Kumar^4*

¹School of Electronics and Electric Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, Korea

²School of Materials Science and Technology, IIT (BHU), Varanasi, India

³Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauzkhas, New Delhi, India

⁴Department of Materials Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

^*Corresponding author: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Abstract

Phosphorene, a single or few-layered form of black phosphorus, has been discovered as a promising 2-D layered materials for applications in electronics and optoelectronics. The outstanding physicochemical properties of Phosphorene bridges gap between graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides. Fabrication of large-area and environmentally stable Phosphorene are main challenges in Phosphorene research. Few well known methods viz. mechanical, liquid exfoliation and pulsed laser deposition have been tried for getting good quality of Phosphorene but each of these methods have their own merit and demerits. In order to transfer the Phosphorene from research laboratories to the industries, large-area synthesis of Phosphorene remains a major challenges along with its environment stability. Current chapter describes various existing synthesis approaches and characterization tools of Phosphorene extending to the passivation methodologies.

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