Recent advances, properties, fabrication and opportunities in two-dimensional materials for their potential sustainable applications

A Hayat, M Sohail, A El Jery, KM Al-Zaydi, S Raza… - Energy Storage …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Elemental two-dimensional (2D) materials, characterized by unique chemical,
physical, and electrical characteristics, now offer intriguing energy and catalysis application …

Tungsten dichalcogenides (WS 2, WSe 2, and WTe 2): materials chemistry and applications

A Eftekhari - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Tungsten is the heaviest transition metal in the family of common transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDCs). Despite the essential similarities of TMDCs, the considerable …

Suppression of magnetic ordering in XXZ-type antiferromagnetic monolayer NiPS3

K Kim, SY Lim, JU Lee, S Lee, TY Kim, K Park… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
How a certain ground state of complex physical systems emerges, especially in two-
dimensional materials, is a fundamental question in condensed-matter physics. A …

Robust multicolor single photon emission from point defects in hexagonal boron nitride

TT Tran, C Elbadawi, D Totonjian, CJ Lobo, G Grosso… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is an emerging two-dimensional material for quantum
photonics owing to its large bandgap and hyperbolic properties. Here we report two …

Hot carrier photovoltaics in van der Waals heterostructures

KK Paul, JH Kim, YH Lee - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Successfully designing an ideal solar cell requires an understanding of the fundamental
physics of photoexcited hot carriers (HCs) and the underlying mechanism of unique …

On-surface synthesis and characterization of 9-atom wide armchair graphene nanoribbons

L Talirz, H Söde, T Dumslaff, S Wang… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The bottom-up approach to synthesize graphene nanoribbons strives not only to introduce a
band gap into the electronic structure of graphene but also to accurately tune its value by …

Low-frequency shear and layer-breathing modes in Raman scattering of two-dimensional materials

L Liang, J Zhang, BG Sumpter, QH Tan, PH Tan… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Ever since the isolation of single-layer graphene in 2004, two-dimensional layered
structures have been among the most extensively studied classes of materials. To date, the …

Long-lived charge separation following pump-wavelength–dependent ultrafast charge transfer in graphene/WS2 heterostructures

S Fu, I du Fossé, X Jia, J Xu, X Yu, H Zhang… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Van der Waals heterostructures consisting of graphene and transition metal
dichalcogenides have shown great promise for optoelectronic applications. However, an in …

Nanophotonics with 2D transition metal dichalcogenides

A Krasnok, S Lepeshov, A Alú - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Two-dimensional semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have recently
become attractive materials for several optoelectronic applications, such as photodetection …

Enhanced electrocatalysis of WSe2 nanosheets by partial oxidation for hydrogen generation

PM Pataniya, X Yang, B Li… - … Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Pristine WSe2 based electrocatalyst shows poor reaction kinetics in electrochemical
hydrogen evolution reaction due to a lack of active atomic sites and an inert basal plane …