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  • Space‐Confined One‐Step Gro...
    Wu, Qinke; Luo, Yuting; Xie, Ruikuan; Nong, Huiyu; Cai, Zhengyang; Tang, Lei; Tan, Junyang; Feng, Simin; Zhao, Shilong; Yu, Qiangmin; Lin, Junhao; Chai, Guoliang; Liu, Bilu

    Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 08/2022, Volume: 18, Issue: 32
    Journal Article

    Abstract 2D material‐based heterostructures are constructed by stacking or spicing individual 2D layers to create an interface between them, which have exotic properties. Here, a new strategy for the in situ growth of large numbers of 2D heterostructures on the centimeter‐scale substrate is developed. In the method, large numbers of 2D MoS 2 , MoO 2 , or their heterostructures of MoO 2 /MoS 2 are controllably grown in the same setup by simply tuning the gap distance between metal precursor and growth substrate, which changes the concentration of metal precursors feed. A lateral force microscope is used first to identify the locations of each material in the heterostructures, which have MoO 2 on the top of MoS 2 . Noteworthy, the creation of a clean interface between atomic thin MoO 2 (metallic) and MoS 2 (semiconducting) results in a different electronic structure compared with pure MoO 2 and MoS 2 . Theoretical calculations show that the charge redistribution at such an interface results in an improved HER performance on the MoO 2 /MoS 2 heterostructures, showing an overpotential of 60 mV at 10 mA cm −2 and a Tafel slope of 47 mV dec −1 . This work reports a new strategy for the in situ growth of heterostructures on large‐scale substrates and provides platforms to exploit their applications.