A review on synthesis of graphene, h-BN and MoS2 for energy storage applications: Recent progress and perspectives

R Kumar, S Sahoo, E Joanni, RK Singh, RM Yadav… - Nano research, 2019 - Springer
The significance of graphene and its two-dimensional (2D) analogous inorganic layered
materials especially as hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and molybdenum disulphide (MoS 2) …

Modulating electronic structures of inorganic nanomaterials for efficient electrocatalytic water splitting

X Du, J Huang, J Zhang, Y Yan, C Wu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Electrocatalytic water splitting is one of the most promising sustainable energy conversion
technologies, but is limited by the sluggish electrochemical reactions. Inorganic …

All The Catalytic Active Sites of MoS2 for Hydrogen Evolution

G Li, D Zhang, Q Qiao, Y Yu, D Peterson… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
MoS2 presents a promising low-cost catalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), but
the understanding about its active sites has remained limited. Here we present an …

A Janus MoSSe monolayer: a potential wide solar-spectrum water-splitting photocatalyst with a low carrier recombination rate

X Ma, X Wu, H Wang, Y Wang - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
For realizing efficient solar to hydrogen energy conversion based on photocatalytic
technology, it is important to explore a photocatalyst with wide-range solar absorption and …

Recent development in 2D materials beyond graphene

A Gupta, T Sakthivel, S Seal - Progress in Materials Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Discovery of graphene and its astonishing properties have given birth to a new class of
materials known as “2D materials”. Motivated by the success of graphene, alternative …

Recent progress on graphene-analogous 2D nanomaterials: Properties, modeling and applications

B Liu, K Zhou - Progress in Materials Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Boosted by the great success of graphene, the past decade has witnessed the rapid
development of graphene-analogous two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials. Despite the high …

Bandgap Engineering of Strained Monolayer and Bilayer MoS2

HJ Conley, B Wang, JI Ziegler, RF Haglund Jr… - Nano …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We report the influence of uniaxial tensile mechanical strain in the range 0–2.2% on the
phonon spectra and bandstructures of monolayer and bilayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) …

Local Strain Engineering in Atomically Thin MoS2

A Castellanos-Gomez, R Roldán, E Cappelluti… - Nano …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Controlling the bandstructure through local-strain engineering is an exciting avenue for
tailoring optoelectronic properties of materials at the nanoscale. Atomically thin materials are …

Molybdenum disulfide nanomaterials: Structures, properties, synthesis and recent progress on hydrogen evolution reaction

Z He, W Que - Applied Materials Today, 2016 - Elsevier
In this review, we provide a comprehensive overview of the MoS 2 nanomaterials,
summarizing recent related studies on structures, properties, synthesis techniques and …

Strain-tuning of the electronic, optical, and vibrational properties of two-dimensional crystals

E Blundo, E Cappelluti, M Felici, G Pettinari… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The variegated family of two-dimensional (2D) crystals has developed rapidly since the
isolation of its forerunner: Graphene. Their planeconfined nature is typically associated with …