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In this article we study the effect of applied strain on the electronic and mechanical properties of stanene, the Tin counterpart of graphene. Due to the relatively large intrinsic spin–orbit coupling we used the fully-relativistic pseudo-potentials to consider the effect of spin–orbit in the density functional calculations. The spin–orbit interaction opens a 70meV energy gap in the K point but by...