High-yield production of mono- or few-layer transition metal dichalcogenide nanosheets by an electrochemical lithium ion intercalation-based exfoliation method

Ruijie Yang, Liang Mei, Yingying Fan, Qingyong Zhang, Zhiyuan Zeng, Hyeon Suk Shin, Damien Voiry

Published: 2022-01-11 DOI: 10.1038/s41596-021-00643-w

Transition metal dichalcogenides

Nanosheets

Electrochemical exfoliation

Lithium ion intercalation

High-yield synthesis

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Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanomaterials, especially the mono- or few-layer ones, have received extensive research interest owing to their versatile properties, ranging from true metals (e.g., NbS2 and VSe2) and semimetals (e.g., WTe2 and TiS
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