Auxetic two-dimensional transition metal selenides and halides

ORAL

Abstract

Auxetic two-dimensional materials provide a promising platform for multiple applications at the nanoscale. Utilizing a hypothesis-based data-driven approach we identify multiple materials with remarkable in-plane auxetic behavior in a family of buckled 2D materials with the stoichiometry MX (M = V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ag, and X= Se, Cl, Br, I). The desirable auxetic behavior originates from the interplay between the buckled structure and the weak metal-metal interaction determined by their electronic structures. The Poisson's ratio is sensitive to magnetic order and the amount of uniaxial stress applied. A transition from positive Poisson's ratio to negative Poisson's ratio for a subgroup of MX compounds under large uniaxial stress is predicted.

*This work was supported as part of the Center for Complex Materials from First Principles (CCM), an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (BES). It benefitted from the supercomputing resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a US Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility operated.

Presenters

  • Jinbo Pan

    • Temple University
    • Chinese Academy of Sciences,Institute of Physics

Authors

  • Jinbo Pan

    • Temple University
    • Chinese Academy of Sciences,Institute of Physics
  • Yan-Fang Zhang

    • Chinese Academy of Sciences,Institute of Physics
  • Jingda Zhang

    • Nankai University
  • Huta Banjade

    • Temple University
  • Jie Yu

    • Temple University
  • Liping Yu

    • University of Maine
  • Shixuan Du

    • Chinese Academy of Sciences,Institute of Physics
    • Institute of Physics and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
    • School of physical sciences, Institute of Physics and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    • Chinese Academy of Science
    • Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics
    • Institute of Physics & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Adrienn Ruzsinszky

    • Physics, Temple University
    • Temple University
  • Zhenpeng Hu

    • School of Physics, Nankai University
    • Nankai University
  • Qimin Yan

    • Temple University
    • Physics, Temple University