Preparation of liquid-exfoliated transition metal dichalcogenide nanosheets with controlled size and thickness: A state of the art protocol

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn 2016, Issue 118, 2016, Pages

  Backes, Claudia ^a   Hanlon, Damien ^b   Szydlowska, Beata M ^b   Harvey, Andrew ^b   Smith, Ronan J ^b   Higgins, Thomas M ^a   Coleman, Jonathan N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Centrifugation; Confinement; Edge effects; Engineering; Issue 118; Layered materials; Liquid exfoliation; Optical properties; Size selection; Transition metal dichalcogenides

Indexed keywords

DISULFIDE; GRAPHITE; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; NANOMATERIAL; SURFACTANT; TUNGSTEN DERIVATIVE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASOUND;

DISULFIDES; GRAPHITE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLYBDENUM; NANOSTRUCTURES; SONICATION; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 85008625514     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/54806     Document Type: Article

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