Controllable Growth and Transfer of Monolayer MoS2 on Au Foils and Its Potential Application in Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

• Published in: ACS nano Vol. 8; no. 10; pp. 10196 - 10204
• Main Authors: Shi, Jianping, Ma, Donglin, Han, Gao-Feng, Zhang, Yu, Ji, Qingqing, Gao, Teng, Sun, Jingyu, Song, Xiuju, Li, Cong, Zhang, Yanshuo, Lang, Xing-You, Zhang, Yanfeng, Liu, Zhongfan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 28.10.2014
• Subjects: molybdenum disulfide; thickness control; chemical vapor deposition; hydrogen evolution reaction; Au foil
• ISSN: 1936-0851; 1936-086X; 1936-086X
• DOI: 10.1021/nn503211t

Controllable synthesis of monolayer MoS2 is essential for fulfilling the application potentials of MoS2 in optoelectronics and valleytronics, etc. Herein, we report the scalable growth of high quality, domain size tunable (edge length from ∼200 nm to 50 μm), strictly monolayer MoS2 flakes or even co...