Charge-transfer materials for electrochemical water desalination, ion separation and the recovery of elements

P Srimuk, X Su, J Yoon, D Aurbach… - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Reversible electrochemical processes are a promising technology for energy-efficient water
treatment. Electrochemical desalination is based on the compensation of electric charge by …

Single-Layer MoS2 Electronics

D Lembke, S Bertolazzi, A Kis - Accounts of chemical research, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Atomic crystals of two-dimensional materials consisting of single sheets
extracted from layered materials are gaining increasing attention. The most well-known …

Synergy of oxygen vacancies and thermoelectric effect enhances uranium (VI) photoreduction

P He, L Zhang, L Wu, S Xiao, X Ren, R He… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2023 - Elsevier
The conversion of soluble U (VI) to relatively immobilized U (IV) by photocatalytic techniques
is considered to be the most effective method to prevent uranium contamination. Herein, a …

[HTML][HTML] Phonon transport in single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides: A first-principles study

X Gu, R Yang - Applied Physics Letters, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are finding promising electronic
and optical applications due to their unique properties. In this letter, we systematically study …

High thermoelectric power factor in two-dimensional crystals of

K Hippalgaonkar, Y Wang, Y Ye, DY Qiu, H Zhu… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
The quest for high-efficiency heat-to-electricity conversion has been one of the major driving
forces toward renewable energy production for the future. Efficient thermoelectric devices …

Thermoelectric properties of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

G Zhang, YW Zhang - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
2D transition metal dichalcogenides (2D TMDs)(MoS2, WS2, etc.) have attracted
considerable attention recently due to their unique structures, strong chemical stability and …

Electronic structures and enhanced optical properties of blue phosphorene/transition metal dichalcogenides van der Waals heterostructures

Q Peng, Z Wang, B Sa, B Wu, Z Sun - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
As a fast emerging topic, van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures have been proposed to
modify two-dimensional layered materials with desired properties, thus greatly extending the …

Chemically exfoliated transition metal dichalcogenide nanosheet-based wearable thermoelectric generators

JY Oh, JH Lee, SW Han, SS Chae, EJ Bae… - Energy & …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
To utilize human heat energy as a permanent power source, we demonstrate, for the first
time, an intrinsically highly foldable and stretchable thermoelectric generator that is based …

Photovoltaic and Photothermoelectric Effect in a Double-Gated WSe2 Device

DJ Groenendijk, M Buscema, GA Steele… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Tungsten diselenide (WSe2), a semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC),
shows great potential as active material in optoelectronic devices due to its ambipolarity and …

Electronic properties of single‐layer and multilayer transition metal dichalcogenides MX2 (M = Mo, W and X = S, Se)

R Roldán, JA Silva‐Guillén… - Annalen der …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐and few‐layer transition metal dichalcogenides have recently emerged as a new
family of layered crystals with great interest, not only from the fundamental point of view, but …