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NATURE CHEMISTRY
Volume 5, Issue 4, Pages 263-275Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/NCHEM.1589
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- National Science Foundation IGERT programme [DGE 0903661]
- Singapore National Research Foundation under the CREATE programme: 'Nanomaterials for Energy and Water Management'
- NTU [M4080865.070.706022]
- WCU (World Class University) programme [R31-2008-000-20012-0]
- Center for Advanced Soft Electronics under the Global Frontier Research Program through the National Research Foundation [2011-0031630]
- MEST of Korea
- Singapore National Research Foundation [NRF-NRFF2011-02]
- Academia Sinica Taiwan
- NRF-CRP [R-144-000-295-281]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2011-0031630, R31-2012-000-20012-0] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Ultrathin two-dimensional nanosheets of layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are fundamentally and technologically intriguing. In contrast to the graphene sheet, they are chemically versatile. Mono-or few-layered TMDs - obtained either through exfoliation of bulk materials or bottom-up syntheses - are direct-gap semiconductors whose bandgap energy, as well as carrier type (n- or p-type), varies between compounds depending on their composition, structure and dimensionality. In this Review, we describe how the tunable electronic structure of TMDs makes them attractive for a variety of applications. They have been investigated as chemically active electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution and hydrosulfurization, as well as electrically active materials in opto-electronics. Their morphologies and properties are also useful for energy storage applications such as electrodes for Li-ion batteries and supercapacitors.
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