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Germanene vs Null - What's the difference?

germanene | null |

As nouns the difference between germanene and null

is that germanene is (inorganic chemistry) an allotrope of germanium that has a hexagonal, planar structure analogous to graphene while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

germanene

English

Noun

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  • (inorganic chemistry) An allotrope of germanium that has a hexagonal, planar structure analogous to graphene
  • * 2012', Friedhelm Bechstedt, Lars Matthes, Paola Gori and Olivia Pulci, "Infrared absorbance of silicene and ' germanene ", Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 261906 (27 June 2012) p. 261906-1
  • Calculating the complex dielectric function for optical interband transitions we show that the two-dimensional crystals silicene and germanene possess the same low-frequency absorbance as graphene.
  • * 2013 , Lars Matthes, Olivia Pulci and Friedhelm Bechstedt, "Massive Dirac quasiparticles in the optical absorbance of graphene, silicene, germanene, and tinene", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 25 #39 (4 September 2013) 395305 p. 395305-1
  • We present first-principles studies of the optical absorbance of the group IV honeycomb crystals graphene, silicene, germanene , and tinene.
  • * 2014 , M E Dávila, L Xian, S Cahangirov, A Rubio and G Le Lay, "Germanene: a novel two-dimensional germanium allotrope akin to graphene and silicene", New J. Phys. 16 095002 (9 September 2014) p. 095002-2
  • After the successful synthesis of silicene in 2012, which was followed by a surge of studies on elemental, novel two-dimensional (2D) materials beyond graphene, a daunting quest was to obtain germanene , the germanium-based analogue of graphene, already predicted to possibly exist in 2009.

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----