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16 Mar 08:43

Wafer-size growth of 2D layered SnSe films for UV-Visible-NIR photodetector arrays with high responsitivity

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,7358-7365
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR00319K, Paper
Lanzhong Hao, Yongjun Du, Zegao Wang, Yupeng Wu, Hanyang Xu, Shichang Dong, Hui Liu, Yunjie Liu, Qingzhong Xue, Zhide Han, Keyou Yan, Mingdong Dong
Wafer-size SnSe thin films with high uniformity and high crystal quality were grown by magnetron sputtering technique, and exhibit a highly sensitive to a broadband wavelength with high responsivity of 277.3 AW−1 and detectivity of 7.6 × 1011 Jones.
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16 Mar 08:41

Selenium vacancy-rich and carbon-free VSe2 nanosheets for high-performance lithium storage

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,8858-8866
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR00801J, Paper
Qiwang Jiang, Jie Wang, Yan Jiang, Long Li, Xingzhong Cao, Minhua Cao
Selenium vacancy-rich and carbon-free VSe2 nanosheets achieve excellent lithium storage performance due to significantly enhanced lithium-ion diffusion rate and electrochemical active sites induced by the Se vacancies.
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16 Mar 08:38

[ASAP] s-Aromaticity in the MoS2 Monolayer

by Maksim Kulichenko and Alexander I. Boldyrev*

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The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c00533
16 Mar 08:38

[ASAP] Tailoring the Potential Landscape and Electrical Properties of 2D MoS2 using Gold Nanostructures of Different Coverage Density

by Bhim Chamlagain†, Udai Bhanu†, Shin Mou§, and Saiful I. Khondaker*†‡

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The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c00066
16 Mar 08:37

[ASAP] Theory of Epitaxial Growth of Borophene on Layered Electride: Thermodynamic Stability and Kinetic Pathway

by Xiaojuan Ni†, Huaqing Huang†, Kyung-Hwan Jin†, Zhengfei Wang‡, and Feng Liu*†

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The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b10438
16 Mar 08:37

[ASAP] Strain-Induced Oxygen Vacancies in Monolayered CeO2(111) Islands Grown on Pt(111)

by Wenhui Rong, Haoran Chen, Zhichao Huang, and Kai Wu*

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The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c00630
16 Mar 08:36

[ASAP] Comparative Catalytic Activity of Graphene Imperfections in Oxygen Reduction Reaction

by Sergey V. Doronin†, Andrey A. Volykhov‡§, Alina I. Inozemtseva†‡, Dmitry Yu. Usachov?, and Lada V. Yashina*‡†

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The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b09668
16 Mar 08:35

[ASAP] Bulk and Monolayer ZrS3 as Promising Anisotropic Thermoelectric Materials: A Comparative Study

by Cong Wang†, Changbo Zheng‡, and Guoying Gao*†

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The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c00298
16 Mar 08:33

Filtering the photoluminescence spectra of atomically thin semiconductors with graphene

by Etienne Lorchat

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 09 March 2020; doi:10.1038/s41565-020-0644-2

Interfacing TMD monolayers with graphene enables the demonstration of bright, single and narrow-line photoluminescence arising solely from TMD neutral excitons.
16 Mar 08:32

A 3D map of atoms in 2D materials

by Angus I. Kirkland

Nature Materials, Published online: 09 March 2020; doi:10.1038/s41563-020-0646-3

Scanning atomic electron tomography measurements reveal the 3D local structure around single dopant atoms in 2D transition metal dichalcogenides, providing essential information to investigate and predict their electronic properties.
16 Mar 08:32

Atomically thin half-van der Waals metals enabled by confinement heteroepitaxy

by Natalie Briggs

Nature Materials, Published online: 10 March 2020; doi:10.1038/s41563-020-0631-x

Single-crystal 2D metals are stabilized at the interface between epitaxial graphene and silicon carbide, with strong internal gradients in bonding character. The confined 2D metals demonstrate compelling superconducting properties.
16 Mar 08:29

General synthesis of two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructure arrays

by Jia Li

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2098-y

A general strategy for the synthesis of two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructure arrays is used to produce high-performance electronic devices, showing the potential of this scalable approach for practical technologies.
09 Mar 08:21

Deriving 2D M2X3 (M = Mo, W, X = S, Se) by periodic assembly of chalcogen vacancy lines in their MX2 counterparts

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,8285-8293
DOI: 10.1039/C9NR10144F, Paper
Xiaowei Wang, Xiaoxiao Guan, Xibiao Ren, Tian Liu, Wei Huang, Juexian Cao, Chuanhong Jin
A group of 2D transition mental sesqui-chalcogenides-M2X3 (M = Mo, W, X = S, Se) were fabricated via periodic assembly of chalcogen vacancy lines in their MX2 counterparts and were predicted to be narrow-band semiconducting with high carrier mobilities.
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09 Mar 08:21

Rich novel zero-dimensional (0D), 1D, and 2D topological elements predicted in the P63/m type ternary boride HfIr3B4

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,8314-8319
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR00635A, Paper
Xiaotian Wang, Zhenxiang Cheng, Gang Zhang, Biao Wang, Xiao-Lin Wang, Hong Chen
Based on first-principles calculations, we propose for the first time that three different (0D, 1D, and 2D) TEs are simultaneously present in a synthetic compound, HfIr3B4, with a P63/m type structure.
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09 Mar 08:20

An asymmetric contact-induced self-powered 2D In2S3 photodetector towards high-sensitivity and fast-response

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,7196-7205
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR00517G, Paper
Jianting Lu, Zhaoqiang Zheng, Jiandong Yao, Wei Gao, Ye Xiao, Menglong Zhang, Jingbo Li
Self-powered photodetectors have triggered extensive attention in recent years due to the advantages of high sensitivity, fast response, low power consumption, high level of integration and wireless operation.
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09 Mar 08:19

2D tetragonal transition-metal phosphides: an ideal platform to screen metal shrouded crystals for multifunctional applications

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,6776-6784
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR00092B, Paper
Qinxi Liu, Jianpei Xing, Zhou Jiang, Xue Jiang, Yi Wang, Jijun Zhao
The unique bonding feature of TM2Ps contributes to their high stability, excellent catalytic performance, good ductility, and abundant magnetic properties.
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09 Mar 08:14

Ideal two-dimensional solid electrolytes for fast ion transport: metal trihalides MX3 with intrinsic atomic pores

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,7188-7195
DOI: 10.1039/C9NR08719B, Paper
Maokun Wu, Pan Liu, Luyan Li, Hong Dong, Yahui Cheng, Haijun Chen, Weichao Wang, Hui Liu, Feng Lu, Wei-Hua Wang, Kyeongjae Cho
Two-dimensional MX3 materials with intrinsic atomic pores are proposed as ideal solid electrolytes in ultrafast ionic and energy storage devices.
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09 Mar 08:13

[ASAP] Correction to “Molybdenum Disulfide Nanoflakes Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition on Graphite: Nucleation, Orientation, and Charge Transfer”

by Erik Pollmann*, Juliana M. Morbec, Lukas Madauß, Lara Bro¨ckers, Peter Kratzer, and Marika Schleberger
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c01297
09 Mar 08:09

[ASAP] Honeycomb Borophene Fragment Stabilized in Polyanionic Sandwich Lithium Salt: A New Type of Two-Dimensional Material with Superconductivity

by Weihong Chen†§, Luo Yan‡§, Ying Li*†, Jingwei Liu†, Di Wu†, Wei Chen†, Guangtao Yu†, Liujiang Zhou*‡, and Zhiru Li*†

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The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b11426
09 Mar 08:07

[ASAP] Grain-Boundary-Induced Strain and Distortion in Epitaxial Bilayer MoS2 Lattice

by Ankit Nalin Mehta†‡, Jiongjiong Mo†§, Geoffrey Pourtois†?, Ashish Dabral†‡, Benjamin Groven†, Hugo Bender*†, Paola Favia†, Matty Caymax†, and Wilfried Vandervorst†‡

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The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c01468
09 Mar 08:07

[ASAP] Gas Sensing Performance of Pristine and Monovacant C6BN Monolayers Evaluated by Density Functional Theory and the Nonequilibrium Green’s Function Formalism

by Vasudeo Babar, Sitansh Sharma, and Udo Schwingenschlo¨gl*

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The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b10553
09 Mar 08:04

[ASAP] MoS2-Supported Fe2 Clusters Catalyzing Nitrogen Reduction Reaction to Produce Ammonia

by Hongchao Zhang†‡, Chaonan Cui†‡*, and Zhixun Luo†‡*

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The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c00486
09 Mar 07:58

A monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenide as a topological excitonic insulator

by Daniele Varsano

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 02 March 2020; doi:10.1038/s41565-020-0650-4

Topological insulators have been studied primarily with regard to the behaviour of electrons. A theoretical study now shows that a single layer of a metal dichalcogenide can become a topological insulator for excitons.
09 Mar 07:56

Nagaoka ferromagnetism observed in a quantum dot plaquette

by J. P. Dehollain

Nature, Published online: 02 March 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2051-0

A quantum dot device designed to host four electrons is used to demonstrate Nagaoka ferromagnetism—a model of itinerant magnetism that has so far been limited to theoretical investigation.
09 Mar 07:55

Ultrafast machine vision with 2D material neural network image sensors

by Lukas Mennel

Nature, Published online: 04 March 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2038-x

A two-dimensional semiconductor photodiode array senses and processes optical images simultaneously without latency, and is trained to classify and encode images with high throughput, acting as an artificial neural network.
09 Mar 07:52

Wafer-scale single-crystal hexagonal boron nitride monolayers on Cu (111)

by Tse-An Chen

Nature, Published online: 04 March 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2009-2

The epitaxial growth of single-crystal hexagonal boron nitride monolayers on a copper (111) thin film across a sapphire wafer suggests a route to the broad adoption of two-dimensional layered semiconductor materials in industry.
09 Mar 07:51

Tunable correlated Chern insulator and ferromagnetism in a moiré superlattice

by Guorui Chen

Nature, Published online: 04 March 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2049-7

A topological Chern insulating state is reported to emerge from strong correlations in flat moiré bands in a graphene superlattice and by applying a vertical electric field the Chern number is switched.
09 Mar 07:48

Strange-metal behaviour in a pure ferromagnetic Kondo lattice

by Bin Shen

Nature, Published online: 04 March 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2052-z

The ferromagnet CeRh6Ge4 is found to exhibit strange-metal behaviour at a quantum critical point, suggesting that changes in the pattern of quantum entanglement, not antiferromagnetism, underlie the development of strange metals.
02 Mar 08:07

Spontaneous gyrotropic electronic order in a transition-metal dichalcogenide

by Su-Yang Xu

Nature, Published online: 26 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2011-8

Optical chiral induction and spontaneous gyrotropic electronic order are realized in the transition-metal chalcogenide 1T-TiSe2 by using illumination with mid-infrared circularly polarized light and simultaneous cooling below the critical temperature.
02 Mar 08:03

Publisher Correction: Direct thermal neutron detection by the 2D semiconductor 6LiInP2Se6

by Daniel G. Chica

Nature, Published online: 29 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2065-7

Publisher Correction: Direct thermal neutron detection by the 2D semiconductor 6LiInP2Se6