The renaissance of black phosphorus

By X. Ling, Han Wang, Shengxi Huang, Fengnian Xia, Mildred S. Dresselhaus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015

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One hundred years after its first successful synthesis in the bulk form in 1914, black phosphorus (black P) was recently rediscovered from the perspective of a 2D layered material, attracting tremendous interest from condensed matter physicists, chemists, semiconductor device engineers, and material scientists. Similar to graphite and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), black P has a layered structure but with a unique puckered single-layer geometry. Because the direct electronic band gap of thin film black P can be varied from 0.3 eV to around 2 eV, depending on its film thickness, and because of its high carrier mobility and anisotropic in-plane properties, black P is promising for novel applications in nanoelectronics and nanophotonics different from graphene and TMDs. Black P as a nanomaterial has already attracted much attention from researchers within the past year. Here, we offer our opinions on this emerging material with the goal of motivating and inspiring fellow researchers in the 2D materials community and the broad readership of PNAS to discuss and contribute to this exciting new field. We also give our perspectives on future 2D and thin film black P research directions, aiming to assist researchers coming from a variety of disciplines who are desirous of working in this exciting research field.

Subfields: Materials Chemistry

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1. Yong‐Wei Zhang
2. Gang Zhang
3. Yongqing Cai
4. Z. Ong
5. V. Sorkin
6. Han Wang
7. Fengnian Xia
8. Xiaomu Wang

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• 2D semiconducting materials for electronic and optoelectronic applications: potential and challenge (2020, background): “Unlike TMDCs, BP has direct band structure for all the range of thickness due to its broken symmetry structure, which makes it even more versatile for potential use in optoelectronic devices [43].”
• Interlayer interactions in anisotropic atomically thin rhenium diselenide (2015, background): “Recently, 2D materials with strong in-plane anisotropic properties, such as black phosphorus [7–11], have been proposed for developing new devices with promising applications in electronics [12, 13], optoelectronics [14–18], and thermoelectrics [19].”
• Biodegradable black phosphorus-based nanospheres for in vivo photothermal cancer therapy (2016, background): “Moreover, the final degradation products are nontoxic phosphate and phosphonate 45–47 , both of which exist in and are well tolerated by the human body 41,42 .”