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Graphene vs Silicene - What's the difference?

graphene | silicene |

As nouns the difference between graphene and silicene

is that graphene is graphene while silicene is (inorganic compound) a monolayer of silicon atoms packed together to resemble graphene or silicene can be (organic chemistry) any short-lived, reactive species r2si: analogous to carbenes.

graphene

English

(wikipedia graphene)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (organic chemistry) Any polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon having the structure of part of a layer of graphite.
  • (inorganic chemistry) An arbitrarily large-scale, one-atom-thick layer of graphite, an allotrope of carbon, that has remarkable electric characteristics.
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    • Derived terms

    * -ene (monolayer materials similar to graphene) * graphane * penta-graphene

    Related terms

    * graphite

    See also

    * benzene * cycloalkene * diamond * fullerene

    silicene

    English

    Etymology 1

    ) from (silicon) and (graphene); due to the similarity of the silicon layer to carbon in graphene.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (inorganic compound) A monolayer of silicon atoms packed together to resemble graphene.
  • * 2007 , Gian G. Guzmán-Verri and L. C. Lew Yan Voon, "Electronic structure of silicon-based nanostructures", Phys. Rev. B 76, 075131 (30 August 2007) p. 075131-1
    • Thus, silicene has the same structure as a graphene sheet but it is composed of Si atoms instead of C atoms.
  • * 2010 , Bernard Aufray, Abdelkader Kara, Sébastien Vizzini, Hamid Oughaddou, Christel Léandri, Benedicte Ealet, and Guy Le Lay, "Graphene-like silicon nanoribbons on Ag(110): A possible formation of silicene", Applied Physics Letters 96, 183102 (3 May 2010) p. 183102-1
    • However, silicene , the counterpart of graphene for silicon has not been found until now, although it has attracted strong theoretical attention since several years.
  • * 2012 , Abdelkader Kara, Hanna Enriquezc, Ari P. Seitsonend, L.C. Lew Yan Voone, Sébastien Vizzinif, Bernard Aufrayg, Hamid Oughaddoub, Surface Science Reports 67 #1, (1 January 2012) p. 1
    • The electronic properties of silicene' nano-ribbons and ' silicene sheets were found to resemble those of graphene.

    Etymology 2

    From (silicon) and (carbene)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (organic chemistry) Any short-lived, reactive species R2Si: analogous to carbenes.