Unusual stacking variations in liquid-phase exfoliated transition metal dichalcogenides

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3690-3699

  Shmeliov, Aleksey ^a   Shannon, Mervyn ^b   Wang, Peng ^c   Kim, Judy S ^a   Okunishi, Eiji ^d   Nellist, Peter D ^a   Dolui, Kapildeb ^e   Sanvito, Stefano ^e   Nicolosi, Valeria ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d JEOL LTD   (Japan)

^e TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy; transition metal dichalcogenides; two dimensional nanomaterials

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; IONIC LIQUIDS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; NANOSTRUCTURES; TRANSITION METALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ABERRATION-CORRECTED SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPIN-SPLIT CONDUCTION BAND; TRANSITION METAL CHALCOGENIDES; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES;

TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84899424339     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5003387     Document Type: Article

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