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Metya AK, Das CK. Electrolyte under Molybdenum Disulfide Surfaces: Molecular Insights on Structure and Dynamics of Water. Langmuir 2024. [PMID: 38320269 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c03184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2024]
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Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is a two-dimensional (2D) material that offers molecular transport and sieving properties and might be a potential candidate for membrane technologies for energy and environmental applications. To facilitate the separation application, understanding the structural and dynamic properties of water near the substrate-aqueous solution is essential. Employing the molecular dynamics simulation, we investigate the density, local water network at the solid-liquid interface, and water dynamics in aqueous electrolyte solutions with various chloride salts confined in MoS2 nanochannels with different pore sizes and electrolyte concentrations. Our simulation results confirm that the layering of interfacial water at the hydrophilic MoS2 surface and the water density variation depends on the nature of the ions. The simulation results imply a strong attraction of cations to the surface-liquid interfaces, whereas anions are expelled from the surface due to electrostatic interaction. An examination of the dynamical property of water reveals that the confinement effect is more pronounced on water mobility when the pore width is less than 3 nm, and the salt concentration is below 1 M, whereas the electrolyte concentration greater than 1 M, ions predominantly drive the water mobility as compared to confinement one. These simulation results enhance experimental observations and provide molecular insights into the local ordering mechanism that can be crucial in controlling water dynamics in nanofiltration applications.
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- Atanu K Metya
- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna 801106, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Raurkela, Rourkela, Odisha 769008, India
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Narute P, Sharbidre RS, Lee CJ, Park BC, Jung HJ, Kim JH, Hong SG. Structural Integrity Preserving and Residue-Free Transfer of Large-Area Wrinkled Graphene onto Polymeric Substrates. ACS Nano 2022; 16:9871-9882. [PMID: 35666252 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c04000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Wrinkled graphene offers many advantageous features resulting from modifying the structural and physical properties as well as the chemical reactivity of graphene. However, its inadequate transferability to other substrates has limited its usability. This paper reports a roll-based clean transfer approach that enables the damage-free and contamination-free transfer of large-area wrinkled graphene onto polymeric substrates without compromising the integrity of wrinkle structures. The method implements the simultaneous imidazole-assisted etching and doping of chemical vapor-deposited graphene to fabricate multilayer graphene on a thermoplastic polystyrene (PS) substrate coated with a water-soluble poly(4-styrenesulfonic acid) (PSS) sacrificial layer via a roll-based transfer process. The compliant PSS layer affords the conformal contact between the PS substrate and graphene during the wrinkle formation process, enabling the controllable fabrication of graphene wrinkle structures on a large area. The water-soluble properties of PSS simplify the typically difficult separation of wrinkled graphene from the PS substrate after its transfer onto a target substrate. This improves the transferability of wrinkled graphene, rendering the transfer process solvent-free and residue-free. This work demonstrates the feasibility of the formulated method by transferring centimeter-scale wrinkled graphene onto currently used transparent flexible substrates (i.e., polyethylene terephthalate and polydimethylsiloxane). The results indicate that the transferred wrinkled graphene possesses the desirable combination of superior stretchability, optical transmittance, sheet resistance, and electromechanical stability, rendering its suitable application to transparent flexible and stretchable electronics.
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- Prashant Narute
- Department of Nano Science, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
- Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea
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- Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Advanced Meta-Materials, Daejeon 34103, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Nano-Mechanics, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, Daejeon 34103, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Nano Science, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
- Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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Xue L, He C, Yang Z, Zhang Z, Xu LC, Fan X, Zhang L, Yang L. Strains Induced Magnetic Hysteresis in MoS2 and WS2 Monolayers with Symmetric Double Sulfur Vacancy Defects. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:17263-17270. [DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01213h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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It has been found that magnetism in two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalco-genides can be realized by properly introducing vacancies and applying strains. However, not a work has clearly clarified the...
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Schranghamer TF, Sharma M, Singh R, Das S. Review and comparison of layer transfer methods for two-dimensional materials for emerging applications. Chem Soc Rev 2021; 50:11032-11054. [PMID: 34397050 DOI: 10.1039/d1cs00706h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Two-dimensional (2D) materials offer immense potential for scientific breakthroughs and technological innovations. While early demonstrations of 2D material-based electronics, optoelectronics, flextronics, straintronics, twistronics, and biomimetic devices exploited micromechanically-exfoliated single crystal flakes, recent years have witnessed steady progress in large-area growth techniques such as physical vapor deposition (PVD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), and metal-organic CVD (MOCVD). However, use of high growth temperatures, chemically-active growth precursors and promoters, and the need for epitaxy often limit direct growth of 2D materials on the substrates of interest for commercial applications. This has led to the development of a large number of methods for the layer transfer of 2D materials from the growth substrate to the target application substrate with varying degrees of cleanliness, uniformity, and transfer-related damage. This review aims to catalog and discuss these layer transfer methods. In particular, the processes, advantages, and drawbacks of various transfer methods are discussed, as is their applicability to different technological platforms of interest for 2D material implementation.
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- Thomas F Schranghamer
- Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India
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- Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA and Materials Research Institute, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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Chiang YJ, Lu TW, Huang PR, Lin SY, Lee PT. MoS 2 with Stable Photoluminescence Enhancement under Stretching via Plasmonic Surface Lattice Resonance. Nanomaterials (Basel) 2021; 11:1698. [PMID: 34203481 DOI: 10.3390/nano11071698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2021] [Revised: 06/18/2021] [Accepted: 06/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In this study, by combining a large-area MoS2 monolayer with silver plasmonic nanostructures in a deformable polydimethylsiloxane substrate, we theoretically and experimentally studied the photoluminescence (PL) enhancement of MoS2 by surface lattice resonance (SLR) modes of different silver plasmonic nanostructures. We also observed the stable PL enhancement of MoS2 by silver nanodisc arrays under differently applied stretching strains, caused by the mechanical holding effect of the MoS2 monolayer. We believe the results presented herein can guarantee the possibility of stably enhancing the light emission of transition metal dichalcogenides using SLR modes in a deformable platform.
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Okogbue E, Ko TJ, Han SS, Shawkat MS, Wang M, Chung HS, Oh KH, Jung Y. Wafer-scale 2D PtTe 2 layers for high-efficiency mechanically flexible electro-thermal smart window applications. Nanoscale 2020; 12:10647-10655. [PMID: 32373894 DOI: 10.1039/d0nr01845g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) layers have gained increasing attention for a variety of emerging electrical, thermal, and optical applications. Recently developed metallic 2D TMD layers have been projected to exhibit unique attributes unattainable in their semiconducting counterparts; e.g., much higher electrical and thermal conductivities coupled with mechanical flexibility. In this work, we explored 2D platinum ditelluride (2D PtTe2) layers - a relatively new class of metallic 2D TMDs - by studying their previously unexplored electro-thermal properties for unconventional window applications. We prepared wafer-scale 2D PtTe2 layer-coated optically transparent and mechanically flexible willow glasses via a thermally-assisted tellurization of Pt films at a low temperature of 400 °C. The 2D PtTe2 layer-coated windows exhibited a thickness-dependent optical transparency and electrical conductivity of >106 S m-1 - higher than most of the previously explored 2D TMDs. Upon the application of electrical bias, these windows displayed a significant increase in temperature driven by Joule heating as confirmed by the infrared (IR) imaging characterization. Such superior electro-thermal conversion efficiencies inherent to 2D PtTe2 layers were utilized to demonstrate various applications, including thermochromic displays and electrically-driven defogging windows accompanying mechanical flexibility. Comparisons of these performances confirm the superiority of the wafer-scale 2D PtTe2 layers over other nanomaterials explored for such applications.
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- Emmanuel Okogbue
- NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32826, USA. and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA
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- NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32826, USA.
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- NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32826, USA. and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea
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- NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32826, USA. and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA
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- NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32826, USA.
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- Analytical Research Division, Korea Basic Science Institute, Jeonju 54907, South Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea
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- NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32826, USA. and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32826, USA
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Han SS, Ko TJ, Yoo C, Shawkat MS, Li H, Kim BK, Hong WK, Bae TS, Chung HS, Oh KH, Jung Y. Automated Assembly of Wafer-Scale 2D TMD Heterostructures of Arbitrary Layer Orientation and Stacking Sequence Using Water Dissoluble Salt Substrates. Nano Lett 2020; 20:3925-3934. [PMID: 32310659 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c01089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We report a novel strategy to assemble wafer-scale two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) layers of well-defined components and orientations. We directly grew a variety of 2D TMD layers on "water-dissoluble" single-crystalline salt wafers and precisely delaminated them inside water in a chemically benign manner. This manufacturing strategy enables the automated integration of vertically aligned 2D TMD layers as well as 2D/2D heterolayers of arbitrary stacking orders on exotic substrates insensitive to their kind and shape. Furthermore, the original salt wafers can be recycled for additional growths, confirming high process sustainability and scalability. The generality and versatility of this approach have been demonstrated by developing proof-of-concept "all 2D" devices for diverse yet unconventional applications. This study is believed to shed a light on leveraging opportunities of 2D TMD layers toward achieving large-area mechanically reconfigurable devices of various form factors at the industrially demanded scale.
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- Sang Sub Han
- NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32826, United States
- Department of Material Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea
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- NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32826, United States
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- NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32826, United States
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- NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32826, United States
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, United States
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- NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32826, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, United States
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- Analytical Research Division, Korea Basic Science Institute, Jeonju 54907, South Korea
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- Analytical Research Division, Korea Basic Science Institute, Jeonju 54907, South Korea
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- Analytical Research Division, Korea Basic Science Institute, Jeonju 54907, South Korea
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- Analytical Research Division, Korea Basic Science Institute, Jeonju 54907, South Korea
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- Department of Material Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea
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- NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32826, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, United States
- Analytical Research Division, Korea Basic Science Institute, Jeonju 54907, South Korea
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Okogbue E, Han SS, Ko TJ, Chung HS, Ma J, Shawkat MS, Kim JH, Kim JH, Ji E, Oh KH, Zhai L, Lee GH, Jung Y. Multifunctional Two-Dimensional PtSe 2-Layer Kirigami Conductors with 2000% Stretchability and Metallic-to-Semiconducting Tunability. Nano Lett 2019; 19:7598-7607. [PMID: 31244238 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenide (2D TMD) layers are highly attractive for emerging stretchable and foldable electronics owing to their extremely small thickness coupled with extraordinary electrical and optical properties. Although intrinsically large strain limits are projected in them (i.e., several times greater than silicon), integrating 2D TMDs in their pristine forms does not realize superior mechanical tolerance greatly demanded in high-end stretchable and foldable devices of unconventional form factors. In this article, we report a versatile and rational strategy to convert 2D TMDs of limited mechanical tolerance to tailored 3D structures with extremely large mechanical stretchability accompanying well-preserved electrical integrity and modulated transport properties. We employed a concept of strain engineering inspired by an ancient paper-cutting art, known as kirigami patterning, and developed 2D TMD-based kirigami electrical conductors. Specifically, we directly integrated 2D platinum diselenide (2D PtSe2) layers of controlled carrier transport characteristics on mechanically flexible polyimide (PI) substrates by taking advantage of their low synthesis temperature. The metallic 2D PtSe2/PI kirigami patterns of optimized dimensions exhibit an extremely large stretchability of ∼2000% without compromising their intrinsic electrical conductance. They also present strain-tunable and reversible photoresponsiveness when interfaced with semiconducting carbon nanotubes (CNTs), benefiting from the formation of 2D PtSe2/CNT Schottky junctions. Moreover, kirigami field-effect transistors (FETs) employing semiconducting 2D PtSe2 layers exhibit tunable gate responses coupled with mechanical stretching upon electrolyte gating. The exclusive role of the kirigami pattern parameters in the resulting mechanoelectrical responses was also verified by a finite-element modeling (FEM) simulation. These multifunctional 2D materials in unconventional yet tailored 3D forms are believed to offer vast opportunities for emerging electronics and optoelectronics.
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- Emmanuel Okogbue
- NanoScience Technology Center , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida 32826 , United States
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- NanoScience Technology Center , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida 32826 , United States
- Department of Material Science and Engineering , Seoul National University , Seoul 08826 , South Korea
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- NanoScience Technology Center , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida 32826 , United States
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- Analytical Research Division , Korea Basic Science Institute , Jeonju 54907 , South Korea
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- Department of Material Science and Engineering , Seoul National University , Seoul 08826 , South Korea
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- NanoScience Technology Center , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida 32826 , United States
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- NanoScience Technology Center , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida 32826 , United States
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- Department of Material Science and Engineering , Seoul National University , Seoul 08826 , South Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering , Yonsei University , Seoul 03722 , South Korea
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- Department of Material Science and Engineering , Seoul National University , Seoul 08826 , South Korea
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- NanoScience Technology Center , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida 32826 , United States
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- Department of Material Science and Engineering , Seoul National University , Seoul 08826 , South Korea
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- NanoScience Technology Center , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida 32826 , United States
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Li H, Ko TJ, Lee M, Chung HS, Han SS, Oh KH, Sadmani A, Kang H, Jung Y. Experimental Realization of Few Layer Two-Dimensional MoS 2 Membranes of Near Atomic Thickness for High Efficiency Water Desalination. Nano Lett 2019; 19:5194-5204. [PMID: 31260632 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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A globally imminent shortage of freshwater has been demanding viable strategies for improving desalination efficiencies with the adoption of cost- and energy-efficient membrane materials. The recently explored 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (2D TMDs) of near atomic thickness have been envisioned to offer notable advantages as high-efficiency membranes owing to their structural uniqueness; that is, extremely small thickness and intrinsic atomic porosity. Despite theoretically projected advantages, experimental realization of near atom-thickness 2D TMD-based membranes and their desalination efficiency assessments have remained largely unexplored mainly due to the technical difficulty associated with their seamless large-scale integration. Herein, we report the experimental demonstration of high-efficiency water desalination membranes based on few-layer 2D molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) of only ∼7 nm thickness. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD)-grown centimeter-scale 2D MoS2 layers were integrated onto porous polymeric supports with well-preserved structural integrity enabled by a water-assisted 2D layer transfer method. These 2D MoS2 membranes of near atomic thickness exhibit an excellent combination of high water permeability (>322 L m-2 h-1 bar-1) and high ionic sieving capability (>99%) for various seawater salts including Na+, K+, Ca2+, and Mg2+ with a range of concentrations. Moreover, they present near 100% salt ion rejection rates for actual seawater obtained from the Atlantic coast, significantly outperforming the previously developed 2D MoS2 layer membranes of micrometer thickness as well as conventional reverse osmosis (RO) membranes. Underlying principles behind such remarkably excellent desalination performances are attributed to the intrinsic atomic vacancies inherent to the CVD-grown 2D MoS2 layers as verified by aberration-corrected electron microscopy characterization.
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- Hao Li
- NanoScience Technology Center , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida 32826 , United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida 32826 , United States
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- NanoScience Technology Center , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida 32826 , United States
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- NanoScience Technology Center , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida 32826 , United States
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- Analytical Research Division , Korea Basic Science Institute , Jeonju 54907 , South Korea
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- NanoScience Technology Center , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida 32826 , United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering , Seoul National University , Seoul 08826 , South Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering , Seoul National University , Seoul 08826 , South Korea
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- Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida 32816 , United States
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- NanoScience Technology Center , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida 32826 , United States
- Department of Physics , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida 32816 , United States
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- NanoScience Technology Center , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida 32826 , United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida 32826 , United States
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida 32816 , United States
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Chen W, Gui X, Yang L, Zhu H, Tang Z. Wrinkling of two-dimensional materials: methods, properties and applications. Nanoscale Horiz 2019; 4:291-320. [PMID: 32254086 DOI: 10.1039/c8nh00112j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Recently, two-dimensional (2D) materials, including graphene, its derivatives, metal films, MXenes and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), have been widely studied because of their tunable electronic structures and special electrical and optical properties. However, during the fabrication of these 2D materials with atomic thickness, formation of wrinkles or folds is unavoidable to enable their stable existence. Meaningfully, it is found that wrinkled structures simultaneously impose positive changes on the 2D materials. Specifically, the architecture of wrinkled structures in 2D materials additionally induces excellent properties, which are of great importance for their practical applications. In this review, we provide an overview of categories of 2D materials, which contains formation and fabrication methods of wrinkled patterns and relevant mechanisms, as well as the induced mechanical, electrical, thermal and optical properties. Furthermore, these properties are modifiable by controlling the surface topography or even by dynamically stretching the 2D materials. Wrinkling offers a platform for 2D materials to be applied in some promising fields such as field emitters, energy containers and suppliers, field effect transistors, hydrophobic surfaces, sensors for flexible electronics and artificial intelligence. Finally, the opportunities and challenges of wrinkled 2D materials in the near future are discussed.
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- Wenjun Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, P. R. China.
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