Incommensurate transition-metal dichalcogenides via mechanochemical reshuffling of binary precursors. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • A new family of heterostructured transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) with incommensurate ("misfit") spatial arrangements of well-defined layers was prepared from structurally dissimilar single-phase 2H-MoS2 and 1T-HfS2 materials. The experimentally observed heterostructuring is energetically favorable over the formation of homogeneous multi-principle element dichalcogenides observed in related dichalcogenide systems of Mo, W, and Ta. The resulting three-dimensional (3D) heterostructures show semiconducting behavior with an indirect band gap around 1 eV, agreeing with values predicted from density functional theory. Results of this joint experimental and theoretical study open new avenues for generating unexplored metal-dichalcogenide heteroassemblies with incommensurate structures and tunable physical properties.

published proceedings

  • Nanoscale Adv

altmetric score

  • 18.25

author list (cited authors)

  • Hlova, I. Z., Singh, P., Malynych, S. Z., Gamernyk, R. V., Dolotko, O., Pecharsky, V. K., ... Balema, V. P.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Hlova, Ihor Z||Singh, Prashant||Malynych, Serhiy Z||Gamernyk, Roman V||Dolotko, Oleksandr||Pecharsky, Vitalij K||Johnson, Duane D||Arroyave, Raymundo||Pathak, Arjun K||Balema, Viktor P

publication date

  • July 2021