What is it about?
Silicene is the latest sensation in nano materials. It just like grapheme thought it has a buckled (puckered) structure. In turns out that this buckling makes it a very good material to store hydrogen which can be used to generate energy in a clean manner.
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Why is it important?
Silicene can store hydrogen high efficiently which can make this into a new and affordable technology.
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This page is a summary of: Structures and electronic properties of silicene clusters: a promising material for FET and hydrogen storage, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry,
DOI: 10.1039/c0cp02580a.
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