Juan Xia

TL;DR: Molten-salt-assisted chemical vapour deposition is used to synthesize a wide variety of two-dimensional transition-metal chalcogenides and elaborate how the salt decreases the melting point of the reactants and facilitates the formation of intermediate products, increasing the overall reaction rate.

TL;DR: PdSe2, a noble-transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC), is introduced as a promising high mobility 2D material into the fast growing 2D community and will spark interests in the less explored regime of noble-TMDCs.

TL;DR: In this article, a large area and high quality 2D transition metal tellurides are synthesized by the chemical vapor deposition method, where the atomic structure of the stacking boundary is revealed by scanning transmission electron microscopy.

TL;DR: This work demonstrates that few-layer MoS2 samples grown by chemical vapor deposition with different stacking configurations exhibit distinct coupling phenomena in both photoluminescence and Raman spectra and demonstrates that the evolution of interlayer interaction with various stacking configurations correlates strongly with layer-breathing mode (LBM) vibrations.

TL;DR: The grain boundaries of atomically thin MoS2 are shown to be especially active sites for H2 evolution, although the activities vary widely depending on nanomaterial sites available.