Dendritic, transferable, strictly monolayer MoS2 flakes synthesized on SrTiO3 single crystals for efficient electrocatalytic applications

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 8617-8624

  Zhang, Yu ^a,b   Ji, Qingqing ^b   Han, Gao Feng ^c   Ju, Jing ^d   Shi, Jianping ^a,b   Ma, Donglin ^b   Sun, Jingyu ^b   Zhang, Yanshuo ^a,b   Li, Minjie ^b   Lang, Xing You ^c   Zhang, Yanfeng ^a,b   Liu, Zhongfan ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

dendritic crystal growth; hydrogen evolution reaction; molybdenum disulfide; monolayer

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ENERGY CONVERSION; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; MICA; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; MONOLAYERS; SAPPHIRE; SILICA; SILICON; SINGLE CRYSTALS; STRONTIUM TITANATES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CENTIMETER-SCALE; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION METHODS; CONTROLLABLE SYNTHESIS; DENDRITIC CRYSTAL; ELECTROCATALYTIC; INSULATING SUBSTRATES; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; POLYCRYSTALLINE AGGREGATES;

TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84906705986     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn503412w     Document Type: Article

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