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Preparation of Liquid-exfoliated Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanosheets with Controlled Size and Thickness: A State of the Art Protocol
Published on: December 20, 2016
Rapid preparation of single-layer transition metal dichalcogenide nanosheets via ultrasonication enhanced lithium
Lihui Yuwen1, Huan Yu, Xiangrong Yang
1Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China. iamlhwang@njupt.edu.cn.
Abstract:
In this report, we have developed a rapid and versatile ultrasonication enhanced lithium intercalation (ULI) method to prepare single-layer transition metal dichalcogenide nanosheets (TMDC NSs, including MoS2, WS2, and TiS2) by using n-butyllithium (n-BuLi).

