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Water electrolysis is promising for industrial hydrogen production to achieve a sustainable and green hydrogen economy, but the high cost of the technology limits its market share. Developing efficient yet economic electrocatalysts is…
Active and reliable electrocatalysts are fundamental to renewable energy technologies. PdCoO2 has recently been recognized as a promising catalyst template for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in acidic media thanks to the formation of…
When doped into a certain range of charge carrier concentrations, MoS2 departs from its pristine semiconducting character to become a strongly correlated material characterized by exotic phenomena such as charge density waves or…
The topological Weyl semimetal MoTe2, in the orthorhombic phase, is an important system both from the point of view of fundamental physics and potential applications. In this study we have investigated the elastic, electronic, bonding and…
Energy band realignment at the interfaces between materials in heterostructures can give rise to unique electronic characteristics and non-trivial low-dimensional charge states. In a homojunction of monolayer and multilayer MoS$_2$, the…
The rational design of hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalysts which are competitive with platinum is an outstanding challenge to make power-to-gas technologies economically viable. Here, we introduce the delafossites PdCrO$_2$,…
Lithographically fabricated MoS2 field effect transistors suffer from several critical imperfections, including low sub-threshold swings, large turn-on gate voltages (VT), and wide device-to-device variability. The large magnitude and…
Monolayer MoTe2 exhibits a variety of derivative structural phases and associated novel electronic properties that enable a wealth of potential applications in future electronic and optoelectronic devices. However, a comprehensive study…
Increasing anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO$_2$) emissions have led to rising global temperatures and climate change. Using earth-abundant metal-oxide catalysts such as Cu$_2$O for reducing CO$_2$ through RWGS reaction seems lucrative. In…
Two-dimensional materials have attracted considerable attention due to their remarkable electronic, mechanical and optical properties, making them prime candidates for next-generation electronic and optoelectronic applications. Despite…
Many successful battery electrodes are based on 2D-layered materials. We have studied aluminium-ion batteries using molybdenum dichalcogenides: \ce{MoS2}, \ce{MoSe2} and MoSSe as active cathode materials. The batteries showed clear…
Photocatalytic water splitting offers a viable and sustainable method for hydrogen production. MXenes, a class of 2D transition-metal carbides/nitrides, have emerged as potential photocatalysts and co-catalysts due to their tunable…
Two-dimensional (2D) materials are a new type of materials under intense study because of their interesting physical properties and wide range of potential applications from nanoelectronics to sensing and photonics. Monolayers of…
Sulfide-based photocatalysts (PC) are promising materials for efficiently producing hydrogen (H2). This chapter aims to provide a detailed survey of the recent advancements in sulfide-based photocatalysts and emphasize their enhanced…
Semiconducting monolayer of 2D material are able to concatenate multiple interesting properties into a single component. Here, by combining opto-mechanical and electronic measurements, we demonstrate the presence of a partial 2H-1T phase…
We computationally investigate the catalytic potential of MoSe$_2$, WS$_2$, and WSe$_2$ nanoribbons and nanosheets for the partial hydrogenation of CO$_2$ to methanol by comparing their electronic, adsorption, and defect properties to…
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been widely investigated for challenging catalytic transformations due to their well-defined structures and high degree of synthetic tunability. These features, at least in principle, make MOFs ideally…
Atomically thin semiconducting MoS2 is of great interest for high-performance flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices. Initial measurements using back-gated field-effect transistor (FET) structures on SiO2 yielded mobility of 1-50…
Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is the most widely studied transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) material, in part because it is a natural crystal present in the earth, thus making it abundant and easily accessible. Geological MoS2 has been…
Molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) attracts attention as a high efficient and low cost photocatalyst for hydrogen production, but suffers from low conductance and high recombination rate of photo-generated charge carriers. In this work, we…