Impact of Pretreatment of the Bulk Starting Material on the Efficiency of Liquid Phase Exfoliation of WS

Steffen Ott, Melanie Lakmann, Claudia Backes

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Article in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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The Effectiveness of Cyrene as a Solvent in Exfoliating 2D TMDs Nanosheets.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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Optimized Liquid-Phase Exfoliation of Magnetic van der Waals Heterostructures: Towards the Single Layer and Deterministic Fabrication of Devices.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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Steffen OttApplied Physical Chemistry, Institute for Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 253, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

Melanie LakmannApplied Physical Chemistry, Institute for Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 253, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

Claudia BackesApplied Physical Chemistry, Institute for Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 253, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

Funding

German research foundation BA4856/2-1Volkswagen Foundation 93404

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liquid phase exfoliation (LPE) is widely used to produce colloidal dispersions of nanomaterials, in particular two-dimensional nanosheets. The degree of exfoliation, i.e., the length to thickness aspect ratio was shown to be intrinsically limited by the ratio of in-plane to out-of-plane binding strength. In this work, we investigate whether simple pretreatment of the starting material can be used to change the in-plane to out-of-plane binding strength through mild intercalation to improve the sample quality in sonication-assisted LPE. Five different pretreatment conditions of WS

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2D materialsintercalationliquid phase exfoliationoptical properties

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PMID33921953

DOI10.3390/nano11051072

PMCPMC8143503

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