Unexpected optical limiting properties from MoS2 nanosheets modified by a semiconductive polymer

Min Zhao1, Meng-Jie Chang, Qiang Wang

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design (MOE), College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China. haoli.zhang@lzu.edu.cn qiangwang@lzu.edu.cn.

Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 17, 2015
PubMed
Summary

Researchers created a new organic/inorganic semiconductor hybrid material using molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT). This P3HT-MoS2 nanohybrid shows unique optical limiting effects, suggesting potential for advanced photoelectric devices.

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