The electroreduction of water for sustainable hydrogen production is a critical component of several developing clean-energy technologies, such as water splitting and fuel cells. However, finding a cheap and efficient alternative catalyst to replace currently used platinum-based catalysts is still a prerequisite for the commercialization of these technologies. Here we report a robust and highly...

Vertical integration of two-dimensional van der Waals materials is predicted to lead to novel electronic and optical properties not found in the constituent layers. Here, we present the direct synthesis of two unique, atomically thin, multi-junction heterostructures by combining graphene with the monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides: molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), molybdenum diselenide (MoS...

The group of 2D materials contains almost all the elements of the periodic table. In contrast to the graphene sheet, they are abundant, this creates a variety of electronic properties including metals, semimetals, insulators and semiconductors. Band gaps of these materials are direct or indirect by ranging from ultraviolet to infrared, for this reason, have received much attention for nanoelect...

This paper presents a systematic study of intrinsic characteristics of layered two-dimensional transitionmetal dichalcogenides, with a focus on molybdenum disulfide, molybdenum diselenide, and tungsten diselenide. Recent advances in high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) have made atomic-resolution imaging possible, thus enabling one to closely examine real and reciprocal spac...

With the massive consumption of fossil fuels and its detrimental impact on the environment, methods of generating clean power are urgent. Hydrogen is an ideal carrier for renewable energy; however, hydrogen generation is inefficient because of the lack of robust catalysts that are substantially cheaper than platinum. Therefore, robust and durable earth-abundant and cost-effective catalysts are ...

We report the structural and optical properties of molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) grown 2-dimensional (2D) material molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2) on graphite, CaF2 and epitaxial graphene. Extensive characterizations reveal that 2HMoSe2 grows by van-der-Waals epitaxy on all 3 substrates with a preferred crystallographic orientation and a Mo:Se ratio of 1:2.

Organohalide perovskite with a variety of surface structures and morphologies have shown promising potential owing to the choice type heterostructure dependent stability. We systematically investigate discuss impact 2-dimensional molybdenum-disulphide (MoS2), molybdenum-diselenide (MoSe2), tungsten-disulphide (WS2), tungsten-diselenide (WSe2), boron-nitiride (BN) graphene monolayers on bandgap ...

In this study, the structural, electronic magnetic properties vanadium diselenide, chromium molybdenum diselenide and tungsten compounds in volume hexagonal structure (2H) were calculated using density functional theory. The values of formation energies were−1.11 eV for −0.94 −1.12 −1.02 diselenide. All are energetically stable since their negative. band shows that compound have a ferromagnetic...