Strategies, status, and challenges in wafer scale single crystalline two-dimensional materials synthesis

L Zhang, J Dong, F Ding - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
The successful exfoliation of graphene has given a tremendous boost to research on various
two-dimensional (2D) materials in the last 15 years. Different from traditional thin films, a 2D …

Synthesis and characterization of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides: Recent progress from a vacuum surface science perspective

K Lasek, J Li, S Kolekar, PM Coelho, M Zhang… - Surface Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a diverse group of materials whose
properties vary from semiconducting to metallic with a variety of many body phenomena …

Wafer-Scale Growth and Transfer of Highly-Oriented Monolayer MoS2 Continuous Films

H Yu, M Liao, W Zhao, G Liu, XJ Zhou, Z Wei, X Xu… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Large scale epitaxial growth and transfer of monolayer MoS2 has attracted great attention in
recent years. Here, we report the wafer-scale epitaxial growth of highly oriented continuous …

Spontaneous doping of the basal plane of MoS2 single layers through oxygen substitution under ambient conditions

J Pető, T Ollár, P Vancsó, ZI Popov, GZ Magda… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The chemical inertness of the defect-free basal plane confers environmental stability to
MoS2 single layers, but it also limits their chemical versatility and catalytic activity. The …

The epitaxy of 2D materials growth

J Dong, L Zhang, X Dai, F Ding - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
Two dimensional (2D) materials consist of one to a few atomic layers, where the intra-layer
atoms are chemically bonded and the atomic layers are weakly bonded. The high bonding …

[HTML][HTML] Universal epitaxy of non-centrosymmetric two-dimensional single-crystal metal dichalcogenides

P Zheng, W Wei, Z Liang, B Qin, J Tian, J Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The great challenge for the growth of non-centrosymmetric 2D single crystals is to break the
equivalence of antiparallel grains. Even though this pursuit has been partially achieved in …

High sensitivity surface plasmon resonance sensor based on two-dimensional MXene and transition metal dichalcogenide: a theoretical study

Y Xu, YS Ang, L Wu, LK Ang - Nanomaterials, 2019 - mdpi.com
MXene, a new class of two-dimensional nanomaterials, have drawn increasing attention as
emerging materials for sensing applications. However, MXene-based surface plasmon …

Reactant friendly hydrogen evolution interface based on di-anionic MoS2 surface

Z Luo, H Zhang, Y Yang, X Wang, Y Li, Z Jin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Engineering the reaction interface to preferentially attract reactants to inner Helmholtz plane
is highly desirable for kinetic advancement of most electro-catalysis processes, including …

Proximity Effects on the Charge Density Wave Order and Superconductivity in Single-Layer NbSe2

P Dreher, W Wan, A Chikina, M Bianchi, H Guo… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Collective electronic states such as the charge density wave (CDW) order and
superconductivity (SC) respond sensitively to external perturbations. Such sensitivity is …

A universal approach for the synthesis of two-dimensional binary compounds

A Shivayogimath, JD Thomsen, DMA Mackenzie… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Only a few of the vast range of potential two-dimensional materials (2D) have been isolated
or synthesised to date. Typically, 2D materials are discovered by mechanically exfoliating …