Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
Volume 1, Issue 17, Pages 2952-2969Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3tc00710c
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [61222403]
- Jiangsu Introduction Program of High-Level Innovative and Pioneering Talents
- Jiangsu Planned Projects for Postdoctoral Research Funds [1101139C]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [4015-56XIA12004, 4015-56YAH11047]
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Graphene with a sp(2)-honeycomb carbon lattice has drawn a large amount of attention due to its excellent properties and potential applications in many fields. Similar to the structure of graphene, two-dimensional semiconductors are its two-dimensional and isostructural counterparts based on the typical layer-structured semiconductors, such as boron nitride (h-BN) and transition metal dichalcogenides (e. g. MoS2 and WS2), whose layers are bound by weak van der Waals forces. Unlike the semi-metal features of graphene, the two-dimensional semiconductors are natural semiconductors with thicknesses on the atomic scale. When one of the dimensions is extremely reduced, the two-dimensional semiconductors exhibit some unique properties, such as a transition from indirect to direct semiconductor properties, and hence have great potential for applications in electronics, energy storage, sensors, catalysis and composites, which arise both from the dimension-reduced effect and from the modified electronic structure. In this feature article, recent developments in the synthesis, properties and applications of two-dimensional semiconductors are discussed. The reported virtues and novelties of two-dimensional semiconductors are highlighted and the current problems in their developing process are clarified, in addition to their challenges and future prospects.
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