Van der Waals heterostructures

A Castellanos-Gomez, X Duan, Z Fei… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The integration of dissimilar materials into heterostructures has become a powerful tool for
engineering interfaces and electronic structure. The advent of 2D materials has provided …

2D heterostructures for ubiquitous electronics and optoelectronics: principles, opportunities, and challenges

PV Pham, SC Bodepudi, K Shehzad, Y Liu, Y Xu… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A grand family of two-dimensional (2D) materials and their heterostructures have been
discovered through the extensive experimental and theoretical efforts of chemists, material …

Valence oscillation and dynamic active sites in monolayer NiCo hydroxides for water oxidation

J Kang, X Qiu, Q Hu, J Zhong, X Gao, R Huang… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
Monolayer materials are endowed with an additional degree of freedom to modulate
electronic structures and catalytic performances. Here, we report a direct synthesis of …

Heterostructures Regulating Lithium Polysulfides for Advanced Lithium‐Sulfur Batteries

T Wang, J He, Z Zhu, XB Cheng, J Zhu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sluggish reaction kinetics and severe shuttling effect of lithium polysulfides seriously hinder
the development of lithium‐sulfur batteries. Heterostructures, due to unique properties, have …

Miniaturized spectrometers with a tunable van der Waals junction

HH Yoon, HA Fernandez, F Nigmatulin, W Cai, Z Yang… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Miniaturized computational spectrometers, which can obtain incident spectra using a
combination of device spectral responses and reconstruction algorithms, are essential for on …

P-type electrical contacts for 2D transition-metal dichalcogenides

Y Wang, JC Kim, Y Li, KY Ma, S Hong, M Kim, HS Shin… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Digital logic circuits are based on complementary pairs of n-and p-type field effect transistors
(FETs) via complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology. In three-dimensional (3D) …

Promises and prospects of two-dimensional transistors

Y Liu, X Duan, HJ Shin, S Park, Y Huang, X Duan - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have attracted tremendous interest as
atomically thin channels that could facilitate continued transistor scaling. However, despite …

Strategies toward high-loading lithium–sulfur batteries

T Wang, J He, XB Cheng, J Zhu, B Lu, Y Wu - ACS Energy Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
A high sulfur loading is an essential prerequisite for the practical application of lithium–sulfur
batteries. However, it will inevitably exacerbate the shuttling effect and slow down the …

Dual-coupling-guided epitaxial growth of wafer-scale single-crystal WS2 monolayer on vicinal a-plane sapphire

J Wang, X Xu, T Cheng, L Gu, R Qiao, Z Liang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The growth of wafer-scale single-crystal two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides
(TMDs) on insulating substrates is critically important for a variety of high-end applications …

Two-dimensional field-effect transistor sensors: the road toward commercialization

C Dai, Y Liu, D Wei - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The evolutionary success in information technology has been sustained by the rapid growth
of sensor technology. Recently, advances in sensor technology have promoted the …