Overview

We are a team of scientists led by Dr. Seymur Jahangirov who is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Material Science and Nanotechnology (UNAM) and affiliated faculty of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience at Bilkent University. Using state-of-the-art computational tools based on the Density Functional Theory (DFT) we have made crucial contributions to the field of 2D materials by predicting the stability of silicene, germanene, and other 2D materials. This inspired experimental studies which led to the synthesis of silicene on silver substrates. For a certain period, silicene was one of the most studied materials, during which, we provided theoretical interpretations for several puzzling experiments. We teamed up with experimentalists who synthesized silicene and provided theoretical analysis in the study which reported the synthesis of germanene. We continue our work on prediction and understanding of many other 2D materials which includes our recent study on a novel structure of boron nitride that has a direct band gap in a semiconducting range. Besides 2D materials, we studied other low-dimensional materials like atomic chains and nanowires. While maintaining our focus on computational condensed matter physics we have also managed to make quixotic forays into subjects like cellular automata, spider orb webs, and spiking neural networks. Our work has been published in top journals and made a significant impact on their respective fields.