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Ultrathin layers of semiconducting molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) offer significant prospects in future electronic and optoelectronic applications. Although an increasing number of experiments bring light into the electronic transport…
MXenes with versatile chemistry and superior electrical conductivity are prevalent candidate materials for energy storage and catalysts. Inspired by recent experiments of hybridizing MXenes with carbon materials, here we theoretically…
Hydrogenation is an effective way to tune material property1-5. Traditional techniques for doping hydrogen atoms into solid materials are very costly due to the need for noble metal catalysis and high-temperature/pressure annealing…
We report on fabrication of large-scale arrays of suspended molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) atomic layers, as two-dimensional (2D) MoS2 nanomechanical resonators. We employ a water-assisted lift-off process to release chemical vapor deposited…
In this study, we address the significant challenge of overcoming limitations in catalytic efficiency for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). The current linear scaling relationships hinder the optimization of electrocatalytic performance.…
Graphene and MoS2 are two well-known quasi two-dimensional materials. This review is a comparative survey of the complementary lattice dynamical and mechanical properties of graphene and MoS2. This comparison facilitates the study of…
Two-dimensional (2D) materials are a new class of materials with interesting physical properties and ranging from nanoelectronics to sensing and photonics. In addition to graphene, the most studied 2D material, monolayers of other layered…
Copper nanowires are widely used as on-chip interconnects due to superior conductivity. However, with aggressive Cu interconnect scaling, the diffusive surface scattering of electrons drastically increases the electrical resistivity. In…
Two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) featuring atomically thin thickness and unique electronic structure with favorable bandgap has been widely recognized as an attractive new material for the development of the next generation of…
Some of the materials are more affected by oxidation than others. To elucidate the oxidation-induced degradation mechanisms in transition metal chalcogenides, the chemical effects in single layer MoS$_2$ and MoTe$_2$ were studied in situ in…
Electric and thermoelectric properties of strictly monolayer MoS$_2$ films, which are grown using a novel micro-cavity based CVD growth technique, have been studied under diverse environmental and annealing conditions. Resistance of a…
Chemical activation of the intrinsically inert basal planes of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is crucial for developing high-efficiency electrocatalysts for energy technology applications. Here we report the discovery of an…
We report a simple technique for the selective etching of bilayer and monolayer MoS$_2$. In this work, chosen regions of MoS$_2$ were activated for oxygen adsorption and reaction by the application of low doses of He$^+$ at 30 keV in a gas…
The objective of our research is to investigate the electrocatalytic properties of novel metal-free quantum dots (QDs) composed of the recently discovered 2D material penta-CN2, with the aim of replacing costly and scarce catalysts such as…
Developing advanced catalysts for acidic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is crucial for sustainable hydrogen production. This study introduces a novel, multi-stage machine learning (ML) approach to streamline the discovery and optimization…
Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides are among the most promising materials for water-splitting catalysts. While a variety of methods have been applied to promote the hydrogen evolution reaction on the transition metal…
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous materials formed by interconnected metal atoms via organic linkers, resulting in high surface area and tuneable porosity, making them exceptional candidates for CO2 capture. However, their…
Monolayer and multilayer MoS$_2$ are extremely fascinating materials for the use in lasers, compact optical parametric amplifiers, and high-power detectors which demands high excitation light-matter interaction. Consequently, it is…
Facing with grave climate change and enormous energy demand, catalyzer gets more and more important due to its significant effect on reducing fossil fuels consumption. Hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) by…
The shift in water security demands improvements in alternative solutions such as saltwater desalination. One of the most efficient technologies in this scope is the reverse osmosis systems, a technology based on a membrane separation…