Two-dimensional diamonds from sp2-to-sp3 phase transitions

F Lavini, M Rejhon, E Riedo - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
The ability to change material properties through phase engineering has long been sought,
with the goal of ad hoc tunability of the physical and chemical properties of the transformed …

Structural and quantum-state phase transitions in van der Waals layered materials

H Yang, SW Kim, M Chhowalla, YH Lee - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Van der Waals layered transition metal dichalcogenides can exist in many different atomic
and electronic phases. Such diverse polymorphisms not only provide a route for …

Ionic modulation and ionic coupling effects in MoS2 devices for neuromorphic computing

X Zhu, D Li, X Liang, WD Lu - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Coupled ionic–electronic effects present intriguing opportunities for device and circuit
development. In particular, layered two-dimensional materials such as MoS2 offer highly …

Quantum spin Hall state in monolayer 1T'-WTe2

S Tang, C Zhang, D Wong, Z Pedramrazi, HZ Tsai… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
A quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator is a novel two-dimensional quantum state of matter that
features quantized Hall conductance in the absence of a magnetic field, resulting from …

Higher-Order Topology, Monopole Nodal Lines, and the Origin of Large Fermi Arcs in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides ()

Z Wang, BJ Wieder, J Li, B Yan, BA Bernevig - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
In recent years, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have garnered great interest as
topological materials. In particular, monolayers of centrosymmetric β-phase TMDs have …

Recent progress of TMD nanomaterials: phase transitions and applications

HH Huang, X Fan, DJ Singh, WT Zheng - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) show wide ranges of electronic properties ranging
from semiconducting, semi-metallic to metallic due to their remarkable structural differences …

Rational design of flexible two-dimensional MXenes with multiple functionalities

Z Fu, N Wang, D Legut, C Si, Q Zhang, S Du… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
In the past decade, two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbides, nitrides, and
carbonitrides (MXenes) have attracted attention and interest from the scientific community …

Topological insulators in the ordered double transition metals M 2′ M ″C 2 MXenes (M′= Mo, W; M ″= Ti, Zr, Hf)

M Khazaei, A Ranjbar, M Arai, S Yunoki - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
The family of two-dimensional transition metal carbides, so called MXenes, has recently
found new members with ordered double transition metals M 2′ M ″C 2, where M′ and M …

Metastable MoS2: Crystal Structure, Electronic Band Structure, Synthetic Approach and Intriguing Physical Properties

W Zhao, J Pan, Y Fang, X Che, D Wang… - … A European Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The 2H molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), as a stable hexagonal phase, has been one of the
most studied transition metal dichalcogenides over the past decades. In the last five years …

Moiré potential impedes interlayer exciton diffusion in van der Waals heterostructures

J Choi, WT Hsu, LS Lu, L Sun, HY Cheng, MH Lee… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The properties of van der Waals heterostructures are drastically altered by a tunable moiré
superlattice arising from periodically varying atomic alignment between the layers. Exciton …