Overview

We are a team of scientists led by Dr. Seymur Jahangirov, 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 2D materials research field by predicting the stability of silicene, germanene, and other 2D materials. This inspired experimental studies, which led to the silicene synthesis on silver substrates. Silicene was one of the most studied materials for a certain period 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 predicting and understanding many other 2D materials, including our recent study on a novel boron nitride structure with 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, significantly impacting their respective fields.