Dequan Er

TL;DR: Compared to materials currently used in high-rate Li and Na ion battery anodes, MXene shows promise in increasing overall battery performance and is predicted by first-principles density functional calculations.

TL;DR: High basal plane hydrogen evolution reaction activity is discovered for the Janus monolayer, and DFT calculation implies that the activity originates from the synergistic effect of the intrinsic defects and structural strain inherent in theJanus structure.

TL;DR: The first two-dimensional transition metal nitride, Ti4N3-based MXene is synthesised using a molten fluoride salt to etch Al from a Ti4AlN3 powder precursor at 550 °C under an argon atmosphere and delaminated the resulting MXene to produce few-layered nanosheets and monolayers of Ti4n3Tx.

TL;DR: In this article, a novel crystal configuration of sandwiched S-Mo-Se structure (Janus SMoSe) at the monolayer limit has been synthesized and carefully characterized.

TL;DR: It is shown that efficient charge injection and the presence of naturally occurring sulfur vacancies are responsible for the observed increase in catalytic activity of the 2H basal planes of monolayer MoS2 nanosheets.