In the global trend towards carbon neutrality, sustainable energy conversion and storage
technologies are of vital significance to tackle the energy crisis and climate change …

The doping or the alteration of crystals with guest species to obtain desired properties has
long been a research frontier in materials science. However, the closely packed lattice …

Memristive devices can offer dynamic behaviour, analogue programmability, and scaling
and integration capabilities. As a result, they are of potential use in the development of …

The intercalation-based exfoliation of layered materials is a broadly applicable strategy for
the scalable production of atomically thin (from mono-to few-layer) sheets, including …

The discovery and control of new phases of matter is a central endeavour in materials
research. The emergence of atomically thin 2D materials, such as transition-metal …

Semiconductors are the basis of many vital technologies such as electronics, computing,
communications, optoelectronics, and sensing. Modern semiconductor technology can trace …

The advent of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (2D-TMDs) has led to an
extensive amount of interest amongst scientists and engineers alike and an intensive …

With compact footprint, low energy consumption, high scalability, and mass producibility,
chip‐scale integrated devices are an indispensable part of modern technological change …

Atomic defects, being the most prevalent zero-dimensional topological defects, are
ubiquitous in a wide range of 2D transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). They could be …

Phase has emerged as an important structural parameter—in addition to composition,
morphology, architecture, facet, size and dimensionality—that determines the properties and …