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NATURE CHEMISTRY
Volume 13, Issue 12, Pages 1235-+Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-021-00800-4
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- National Key R&D Program on Nano Science & Technology of the MOST [2016YFA0200602, 2018YFA0208603, 2017YFA0207301]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21925110, 21890751, 91745113, U2032161, 22073087, 22005284]
- National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [WK2060190084]
- Major Program of Development Foundation of Hefei Center for Physical Science and Technology [2016FXZY001]
- Users with Excellence Project of Hefei Science Center CAS [2021HSC-UF004]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB36000000]
- National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents [BX20190308]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS [2018500]
- Super Computer Center of USTCSCC
- SCCAS
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Exfoliation of AgCrS2 into nanosheets was achieved by intercalation with tetraalkylammonium cations, leading to superionic behavior at room temperature.
Layered materials held together by weak interactions can be exfoliated into monolayers that retain the structure and composition of their bulk counterpart, but this has remained challenging to achieve for non-van der Waals materials. Now, AgCrS2 has been exfoliated into such [CrS2]Ag[CrS2] nanosheets through intercalation with tetraalkylammonium cations chosen for their suitable redox potential. The nanosheets show superionic behaviour at room temperature. Layered materials have attracted tremendous interest for accessing two-dimensional structures. Materials such as graphite or transition metal dichalcogenides, in which the layers are held together by van der Waals interactions, can be exfoliated through a variety of processes in a manner that retains the structure and composition of the monolayers, but this has proven difficult for solids with stronger interlayer interactions. Here, we demonstrate the exfoliation of AgCrS2, a member of the AMX(2) family (where A is a monovalent metal, M is a trivalent metal and X is a chalcogen), through intercalation with tetraalkylammonium cations, chosen for their suitable redox potential. The as-exfoliated nanosheets consist of Ag layers sandwiched between two CrS2 layers, similar to their structure in the bulk. They show superionic behaviour at room temperature, with an ionic conductivity of 33.2 mS cm(-1) at 298 K that originates from Ag+ ions rapidly hopping between neighbouring tetrahedral interstices; in the bulk, this behaviour is only observed above 673 K.
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