Advanced thermoelectric design: from materials and structures to devices

XL Shi, J Zou, ZG Chen - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The long-standing popularity of thermoelectric materials has contributed to the creation of
various thermoelectric devices and stimulated the development of strategies to improve their …

Tungsten dichalcogenides (WS 2, WSe 2, and WTe 2): materials chemistry and applications

A Eftekhari - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Tungsten is the heaviest transition metal in the family of common transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDCs). Despite the essential similarities of TMDCs, the considerable …

Increasing the active sites and intrinsic activity of transition metal chalcogenide electrocatalysts for enhanced water splitting

J Huang, Y Jiang, T An, M Cao - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrochemical water splitting has been regarded as a promising technique for facilitating
the conversion of sustainable energy. To realize the large-scale application of water …

Lateral heterojunctions within monolayer MoSe2–WSe2 semiconductors

C Huang, S Wu, AM Sanchez, JJP Peters… - Nature materials, 2014 - nature.com
Heterojunctions between three-dimensional (3D) semiconductors with different bandgaps
are the basis of modern light-emitting diodes, diode lasers and high-speed transistors …

Halide-assisted atmospheric pressure growth of large WSe2 and WS2 monolayer crystals

S Li, S Wang, DM Tang, W Zhao, H Xu, L Chu… - Applied Materials …, 2015 - Elsevier
Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of two-dimensional (2D) tungsten dichalcogenide crystals
requires steady flow of tungsten source in the vapor phase. This often requires high …

Recent advances in transition-metal dichalcogenide based nanomaterials for water splitting

F Wang, TA Shifa, X Zhan, Y Huang, K Liu, Z Cheng… - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The desire for sustainable and clean energy future continues to be the concern of the
scientific community. Researchers are incessantly targeting the development of scalable …

Highly Scalable, Atomically Thin WSe2 Grown via Metal–Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition

SM Eichfeld, L Hossain, YC Lin, AF Piasecki, B Kupp… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Tungsten diselenide (WSe2) is a two-dimensional material that is of interest for next-
generation electronic and optoelectronic devices due to its direct bandgap of 1.65 eV in the …

Two-dimensional nanomaterials with engineered bandgap: Synthesis, properties, applications

Y Wang, L Wang, X Zhang, X Liang, Y Feng, W Feng - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Encouraged by its excellent electronic, optical, and mechanical properties, two-dimensional
nanomaterials, including graphene, germanene, silicene, phosphorene, transition metal …

Photonics and optoelectronics of two-dimensional materials beyond graphene

JS Ponraj, ZQ Xu, SC Dhanabalan, H Mu… - …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Apart from conventional materials, the study of two-dimensional (2D) materials has emerged
as a significant field of study for a variety of applications. Graphene-like 2D materials are …

WSe2 2D p‐type semiconductor‐based electronic devices for information technology: Design, preparation, and applications

Q Cheng, J Pang, D Sun, J Wang, S Zhang, F Liu… - InfoMat, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The pioneering exfoliation of monolayer tungsten diselenide has greatly inspired
researchers toward semiconducting applications. WSe2 belongs to a family of transition …