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Electrocatalysts based on transition metal sulfides are drawing accelerating concerns in renewable energy research because of their intrinsically excellent activities towards both hydrogen evolution reaction and oxygen evolution reaction.…

The search for new phases is an important direction in materials science. The phase transition of sulfides results in significant changes in catalytic performance, such as MoS2 and WS2. Cubic pentlandite [cPn, (Fe, Ni)9S8] can be a…

The discovery of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (2D TMDs) has promised next-generation photonics and optoelectronics applications, particularly in the realm of nanophotonics. Arguably, the most crucial fundamental…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-22 Kwang Jin Lee , Wei Xin , Chunhao Fann , Xinli Ma , Fei Xing , Jing Liu , Jihua Zhang , Mohamed Elkabbash , Chunlei Guo

Two-dimensional materials (2DM) have attracted much interest due to their distinct optical, electronic, and catalytic properties. These properties can be by tuned a range of methods including substitutional doping or, as recently…

The concept of alloy engineering has emerged as a viable technique towards tuning the bandgap as well as engineering the defect levels in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcognides (TMDC). Possibility to synthesize these ultrathin TMDC…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-01 Shubhrasish Mukherjee , Didhiti Bhattacharya , Samit Kumar Ray , Atindra Nath Pal

The attachment of redox active molecules to transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), such as MoS2, constitutes a promising approach for designing electrochemically switchable devices through the control of the material charge/spin transport…

MXene transition-metal carbides and nitrides are of growing interest for energy storage applications. These compounds are especially promising for use as pseudocapacitive electrodes due to their ability to convert energy electrochemically…

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 Jing Wu , Hennrik Schmidt , Amara Kiran Kumar , Xiangfan Xu , Goki Eda , Barbaros Özyilmaz

Transition-metal-based layered double hydroxides (TM-LDHs) nanosheets are promising electrocatalysts in the renewable electrochemical energy conversion system, which are regarded as alternatives to noble metal-based materials. In this…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Yuchen Wang , Man Zhang , Yaoyu Liu , Zhikeng Zheng , Biying Liu , Meng Chen , Guoqing Guan , Kai Yan

Atomically thin, single-crystalline transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) grown via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on sapphire substrates exhibit exceptional mechanical and electrical properties, positioning them as excellent channel…

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…

One important use of layered semiconductors such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) could be in making novel heterojunction devices leading to functionalities unachievable using conventional semiconductors. Here we demonstrate an ultrafast…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-13 Mohammad R. Esmaeili-Rad , Sayeef Salahuddin

Synthesized micro- and nanotubes composed of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) such as MoS$_2$ are promising for many applications in nanophotonics, because they combine the abilities to emit strong exciton luminescence and to act as…

Layered transition metal dichalcogenides display a wide range of attractive physical and chemical properties and are potentially important for various device applications. Here we report the electronic transport and device properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-21 Wenjuan Zhu , Tony Low , Yi-Hsien Lee , Han Wang , Damon B. Farmer , Jing Kong , Fengnian Xia , Phaedon Avouris

The phase transitions among polymorphic two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have attracted increasing attention for their potential in enabling distinct functionalities in the same material for making integrated…

MoS2 is one of the important members of transition metal dichalogenides which is emerging as a potential 2D atomically thin layered material for low power electronic and opto-electronic applications. However, for MoS2 a critical fundamental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Anand P. S. Gaur , Satyaprakash Sahoo , Majid Ahmadi , Saroj P Dash , Maxime J-F Guinel , Ram S. Katiyar

This work presents a detailed experimental investigation of the interaction between molecular hydrogen (H$_2$) and monolayer MoS$_2$ field effect transistors (MoS$_2$ FET), aiming for sensing application. The MoS$_2$ FET exhibits a response…

Heterostructures (HSs) formed by the transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) materials have shown great promise in next-generation optoelectronic and photonic applications. An artificially twisted HS, allows us to manipulate the optical,…

Semiconducting 2D materials, such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and other members of the transition metal dichalcogenide family, have emerged as promising materials for applications in high performance nanoelectronics that exhibit…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-24 David Maeso , Andres Castellanos-Gomez , Nicolas Agraït , Gabino Rubio-Bollinger

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides MX2 (M = Mo, W, X = S, Se, Te) attracts enormous research interests in recent years. Its 2H phase possesses an indirect to direct bandgap transition in 2D limit, and thus shows great…