Basal-Plane Functionalization of Chemically Exfoliated Molybdenum Disulfide by Diazonium Salts

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 6018-6030

  Knirsch, Kathrin C ^a   Berner, Nina C ^b   Nerl, Hannah C ^b   Cucinotta, Clotilde S ^b   Gholamvand, Zahra ^b   McEvoy, Niall ^b   Wang, Zhenxing ^a,c   Abramovic, Irena ^a   Vecera, Philipp ^a   Halik, Marcus ^a   Sanvito, Stefano ^b   Duesberg, Georg S ^b   Nicolosi, Valeria ^b   Hauke, Frank ^a   Hirsch, Andreas ^a   Coleman, Jonathan N ^b   Backes, Claudia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c AMO GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

1T polytype; basal plane; chemical exfoliation; covalent functionalization; layered materials; molybdenum disulfide; transition metal dichalcogenides

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; INTERCALATION; SALTS; TRANSITION METALS;

BASAL PLANES; CHEMICAL EXFOLIATIONS; COVALENT FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; LAYERED MATERIAL; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; POLYTYPES; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES;

MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84935031744     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b00965     Document Type: Article

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