2H → 1T phase transition and hydrogen evolution activity of MoS<sub>2</sub>, MoSe<sub>2</sub>, WS<sub>2</sub> and WSe<sub>2</sub> strongly depends on the MX<sub>2</sub> composition

Adriano Ambrosi, Zdeněk Sofer, Martin Pumera

Chemical Communications · 2015 · 644 citations · 25 references

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Abstract

We investigate herein the four most widely considered TMD materials: MoS2, MoSe2, WS2 and WSe2. A 2H → 1T phase transition occurs during the chemical exfoliation with different efficiencies among the four materials.

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