Molecular Scaffold Growth of Two-Dimensional, Strong Interlayer-Bonding-Layered Materials
Abstract
Currently, most two-dimensional (2D) materials that are of interest to emergent applications have focused on van der Waals–layered materials (VLMs) because of the ease with which the layers can be separated (e.g., graphene). Strong interlayer-bonding-layered materials (SLMs) in general have not been thoroughly explored, and one of the most critical present issues is the huge challenge of their preparation, although their physicochemical property transformation should be richer than VLMs and deserves greater attention. MAX phases are a classical kind of SLM. However, limited to the strong interlayer bonding, their corresponding 2D counterparts have never been obtained, nor has there been investigation of their fundamental properties in the 2D limitation. Here, the authors develop a controllable bottom-up synthesis strategy for obtaining 2D SLMs single crystal through the design of a molecular scaffold with Mo 2GaC, which is a typical kind of MAX phase, as an example. The superconducting transitions of Mo 2GaC at the 2D limit are clearly inherited from the bulk, which is consistent with Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless behavior. The authors believe that their molecular scaffold strategy will allow the fabrication of other high-quality 2D SLMs single crystals, which will further expand the family of 2D materials and promote their future application.
- Authors:
-
- Wuhan Univ., Wuhan (China)
- Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China)
- IFW Dresden, Dresden (Germany)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Jilin Univ., Changchun (China)
- IFW Dresden, Dresden (Germany); Soochow Univ., Suzhou (China); Polish Academy of Sciences, Zabrze (Poland)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1507877
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725; 1507877; 21473124; 11404131; 11674121
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- CCS Chemistry
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 1; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2096-5745
- Publisher:
- Chinese Chemical Society Publishing
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; molecular scaffold; strong interlayer bonding; chemical vapor deposition; 2D MAX phase crystals
Citation Formats
Zeng, Mengqi, Chen, Yunxu, Zhang, Enze, Li, Jiaxu, Mendes, Rafael G., Sang, Xiahan, Luo, Shulin, Ming, Wenmei, Fu, Yuhao, Du, Mao -Hua, Zhang, Lijun, Parker, David S., Unocic, Raymond R., Xiao, Kai, Wang, Chenglai, Zhang, Tao, Xiao, Yao, Rümmeli, Mark H., Xiu, Faxian, and Fu, Lei. Molecular Scaffold Growth of Two-Dimensional, Strong Interlayer-Bonding-Layered Materials. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.31635/ccschem.019.20180003.
Zeng, Mengqi, Chen, Yunxu, Zhang, Enze, Li, Jiaxu, Mendes, Rafael G., Sang, Xiahan, Luo, Shulin, Ming, Wenmei, Fu, Yuhao, Du, Mao -Hua, Zhang, Lijun, Parker, David S., Unocic, Raymond R., Xiao, Kai, Wang, Chenglai, Zhang, Tao, Xiao, Yao, Rümmeli, Mark H., Xiu, Faxian, & Fu, Lei. Molecular Scaffold Growth of Two-Dimensional, Strong Interlayer-Bonding-Layered Materials. United States. https://doi.org/10.31635/ccschem.019.20180003
Zeng, Mengqi, Chen, Yunxu, Zhang, Enze, Li, Jiaxu, Mendes, Rafael G., Sang, Xiahan, Luo, Shulin, Ming, Wenmei, Fu, Yuhao, Du, Mao -Hua, Zhang, Lijun, Parker, David S., Unocic, Raymond R., Xiao, Kai, Wang, Chenglai, Zhang, Tao, Xiao, Yao, Rümmeli, Mark H., Xiu, Faxian, and Fu, Lei. 2019.
"Molecular Scaffold Growth of Two-Dimensional, Strong Interlayer-Bonding-Layered Materials". United States. https://doi.org/10.31635/ccschem.019.20180003. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1507877.
@article{osti_1507877,
title = {Molecular Scaffold Growth of Two-Dimensional, Strong Interlayer-Bonding-Layered Materials},
author = {Zeng, Mengqi and Chen, Yunxu and Zhang, Enze and Li, Jiaxu and Mendes, Rafael G. and Sang, Xiahan and Luo, Shulin and Ming, Wenmei and Fu, Yuhao and Du, Mao -Hua and Zhang, Lijun and Parker, David S. and Unocic, Raymond R. and Xiao, Kai and Wang, Chenglai and Zhang, Tao and Xiao, Yao and Rümmeli, Mark H. and Xiu, Faxian and Fu, Lei},
abstractNote = {Currently, most two-dimensional (2D) materials that are of interest to emergent applications have focused on van der Waals–layered materials (VLMs) because of the ease with which the layers can be separated (e.g., graphene). Strong interlayer-bonding-layered materials (SLMs) in general have not been thoroughly explored, and one of the most critical present issues is the huge challenge of their preparation, although their physicochemical property transformation should be richer than VLMs and deserves greater attention. MAX phases are a classical kind of SLM. However, limited to the strong interlayer bonding, their corresponding 2D counterparts have never been obtained, nor has there been investigation of their fundamental properties in the 2D limitation. Here, the authors develop a controllable bottom-up synthesis strategy for obtaining 2D SLMs single crystal through the design of a molecular scaffold with Mo 2GaC, which is a typical kind of MAX phase, as an example. The superconducting transitions of Mo 2GaC at the 2D limit are clearly inherited from the bulk, which is consistent with Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless behavior. The authors believe that their molecular scaffold strategy will allow the fabrication of other high-quality 2D SLMs single crystals, which will further expand the family of 2D materials and promote their future application.},
doi = {10.31635/ccschem.019.20180003},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1507877},
journal = {CCS Chemistry},
issn = {2096-5745},
number = 1,
volume = 1,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Mar 05 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Tue Mar 05 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}
Figures / Tables:
Works referenced in this record:
Magnetron sputtered epitaxial single-phase Ti3SiC2 thin films
journal, July 2002
- Palmquist, J. -P.; Jansson, U.; Seppänen, T.
- Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 81, Issue 5
In situ x-ray reflectivity study of the oxidation kinetics of liquid gallium and the liquid alloy
journal, February 1998
- Plech, Anton; Klemradt, Uwe; Metzger, Hartmut
- Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 10, Issue 5
Two-dimensional gallium nitride realized via graphene encapsulation
journal, August 2016
- Al Balushi, Zakaria Y.; Wang, Ke; Ghosh, Ram Krishna
- Nature Materials, Vol. 15, Issue 11
Structural and chemical determination of the new nanolaminated carbide Mo2Ga2C from first principles and materials analysis
journal, October 2015
- Lai, C. -C.; Meshkian, R.; Dahlqvist, M.
- Acta Materialia, Vol. 99
Progress in research and development on MAX phases: a family of layered ternary compounds
journal, May 2011
- Sun, Z. M.
- International Materials Reviews, Vol. 56, Issue 3
Highly crystalline 2D superconductors
journal, December 2016
- Saito, Yu; Nojima, Tsutomu; Iwasa, Yoshihiro
- Nature Reviews Materials, Vol. 2, Issue 1
QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
journal, September 2009
- Giannozzi, Paolo; Baroni, Stefano; Bonini, Nicola
- Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 21, Issue 39, Article No. 395502
The critical properties of the two-dimensional xy model
journal, March 1974
- Kosterlitz, J. M.
- Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, Vol. 7, Issue 6
The Ti 3 AlC 2 MAX Phase as an Efficient Catalyst for Oxidative Dehydrogenation of n-Butane
journal, January 2018
- Ng, Wesley H. K.; Gnanakumar, Edwin S.; Batyrev, Erdni
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 57, Issue 6
Ultrathin platinum nanowires grown on single-layered nickel hydroxide with high hydrogen evolution activity
journal, March 2015
- Yin, Huajie; Zhao, Shenlong; Zhao, Kun
- Nature Communications, Vol. 6, Issue 1
Synthesis of Ti3AuC2, Ti3Au2C2 and Ti3IrC2 by noble metal substitution reaction in Ti3SiC2 for high-temperature-stable Ohmic contacts to SiC
journal, May 2017
- Fashandi, Hossein; Dahlqvist, Martin; Lu, Jun
- Nature Materials, Vol. 16, Issue 8
Carbides of formula T2MC
journal, August 1964
- Jeitschko, W.; Nowotny, H.; Benesovsky, F.
- Journal of the Less Common Metals, Vol. 7, Issue 2
Fully reversible, dislocation-based compressive deformation of Ti3SiC2 to 1 GPa
journal, January 2003
- Barsoum, M. W.; Zhen, T.; Kalidindi, S. R.
- Nature Materials, Vol. 2, Issue 2
Erratum: Bonding and classification of nanolayered ternary carbides [Phys. Rev. B 70 , 092102 (2004)]
journal, February 2005
- Sun, Zhimei; Music, Denis; Ahuja, Rajeev
- Physical Review B, Vol. 71, Issue 5
The effect of the interlayer element on the exfoliation of layered Mo 2 AC (A = Al, Si, P, Ga, Ge, As or In) MAX phases into two-dimensional Mo 2 C nanosheets
journal, February 2014
- Khazaei, Mohammad; Arai, Masao; Sasaki, Taizo
- Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, Vol. 15, Issue 1
2D WC single crystal embedded in graphene for enhancing hydrogen evolution reaction
journal, March 2017
- Zeng, Mengqi; Chen, Yunxu; Li, Jiaxu
- Nano Energy, Vol. 33
Two-dimensional superconductivity at the interface of a Bi2Te3/FeTe heterostructure
journal, June 2014
- He, Qing Lin; Liu, Hongchao; He, Mingquan
- Nature Communications, Vol. 5, Issue 1
BAND STRUCTURE, HARDNESS, THERMODYNAMIC AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SUPERCONDUCTING Nb 2 AsC , Nb 2 InC AND Mo 2 GaC
journal, June 2013
- Hadi, M. A.; Ali, M. S.; Naqib, S. H.
- International Journal of Computational Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 02, Issue 02
Ultrathin Chiral Metal-Organic-Framework Nanosheets for Efficient Enantioselective Separation
journal, May 2018
- Guo, Jun; Zhang, Yin; Zhu, Yanfei
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 57, Issue 23
Solvent Exfoliation of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: Dispersibility of Exfoliated Nanosheets Varies Only Weakly between Compounds
journal, March 2012
- Cunningham, Graeme; Lotya, Mustafa; Cucinotta, Clotilde S.
- ACS Nano, Vol. 6, Issue 4
Anisotropy of the superconducting transport properties of the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface
journal, March 2009
- Reyren, N.; Gariglio, S.; Caviglia, A. D.
- Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 94, Issue 11
Two-dimensional gas of massless Dirac fermions in graphene
journal, November 2005
- Novoselov, K. S.; Geim, A. K.; Morozov, S. V.
- Nature, Vol. 438, Issue 7065, p. 197-200
Experimental observation of the quantum Hall effect and Berry's phase in graphene
journal, November 2005
- Zhang, Yuanbo; Tan, Yan-Wen; Stormer, Horst L.
- Nature, Vol. 438, Issue 7065, p. 201-204
Structural and mechanical properties of TiC and Ti–Si–C films deposited by pulsed laser deposition
journal, September 2001
- Phani, A. R.; Krzanowski, J. E.; Nainaparampil, J. J.
- Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films, Vol. 19, Issue 5
The Mn+1AXn phases: Materials science and thin-film processing
journal, February 2010
- Eklund, Per; Beckers, Manfred; Jansson, Ulf
- Thin Solid Films, Vol. 518, Issue 8, p. 1851-1878
Isotropic Growth of Graphene toward Smoothing Stitching
journal, July 2016
- Zeng, Mengqi; Tan, Lifang; Wang, Lingxiang
- ACS Nano, Vol. 10, Issue 7
High-Electron-Mobility and Air-Stable 2D Layered PtSe 2 FETs
journal, November 2016
- Zhao, Yuda; Qiao, Jingsi; Yu, Zhihao
- Advanced Materials, Vol. 29, Issue 5
Prediction and synthesis of a family of atomic laminate phases with Kagomé-like and in-plane chemical ordering
journal, July 2017
- Dahlqvist, Martin; Lu, Jun; Meshkian, Rahele
- Science Advances, Vol. 3, Issue 7
Ultrathin metal–organic framework nanosheets for electrocatalytic oxygen evolution
journal, November 2016
- Zhao, Shenlong; Wang, Yun; Dong, Juncai
- Nature Energy, Vol. 1, Issue 12
Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin Carbon Films
journal, October 2004
- Novoselov, K. S.
- Science, Vol. 306, Issue 5696, p. 666-669
Structural, elastic, electronic properties and Fermi surface for superconducting Mo2GaC in comparison with V2GaC and Nb2GaC from first principles
journal, July 2010
- Shein, I. R.; Ivanovskii, A. L.
- Physica C: Superconductivity, Vol. 470, Issue 13-14
Magnetically driven anisotropic structural changes in the atomic laminate
journal, January 2016
- Dahlqvist, M.; Ingason, A. S.; Alling, B.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 93, Issue 1
Large-area high-quality 2D ultrathin Mo2C superconducting crystals
journal, August 2015
- Xu, Chuan; Wang, Libin; Liu, Zhibo
- Nature Materials, Vol. 14, Issue 11
X-ray study of the oxidation of liquid-gallium surfaces
journal, April 1997
- Regan, M. J.; Tostmann, H.; Pershan, P. S.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 55, Issue 16
Repeated crack healing in MAX-phase ceramics revealed by 4D in situ synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy
journal, March 2016
- Sloof, Willem G.; Pei, Ruizhi; McDonald, Samuel A.
- Scientific Reports, Vol. 6, Issue 1
25th Anniversary Article: MXenes: A New Family of Two-Dimensional Materials
journal, December 2013
- Naguib, Michael; Mochalin, Vadym N.; Barsoum, Michel W.
- Advanced Materials, Vol. 26, Issue 7, p. 992-1005
Two-dimensional normal-state quantum oscillations in a superconducting heterostructure
journal, November 2009
- Kozuka, Y.; Kim, M.; Bell, C.
- Nature, Vol. 462, Issue 7272, p. 487-490
Scalable production of large quantities of defect-free few-layer graphene by shear exfoliation in liquids
journal, April 2014
- Paton, Keith R.; Varrla, Eswaraiah; Backes, Claudia
- Nature Materials, Vol. 13, Issue 6
Ordering, metastability and phase transitions in two-dimensional systems
journal, April 1973
- Kosterlitz, J M; Thouless, D J
- Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, Vol. 6, Issue 7, p. 1181-1203
The MAX Phases: Unique New Carbide and Nitride Materials
journal, January 2001
- Barsoum, Michel; El-Raghy, Tamer
- American Scientist, Vol. 89, Issue 4
High-yield production of graphene by liquid-phase exfoliation of graphite
journal, August 2008
- Hernandez, Yenny; Nicolosi, Valeria; Lotya, Mustafa
- Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 3, Issue 9, p. 563-568
Superconducting Interfaces Between Insulating Oxides
journal, August 2007
- Reyren, N.; Thiel, S.; Caviglia, A. D.
- Science, Vol. 317, Issue 5842
The rise of graphene
journal, March 2007
- Geim, A. K.; Novoselov, K. S.
- Nature Materials, Vol. 6, Issue 3, p. 183-191
The chemistry of two-dimensional layered transition metal dichalcogenide nanosheets
journal, April 2013
- Chhowalla, Manish; Shin, Hyeon Suk; Eda, Goki
- Nature Chemistry, Vol. 5, Issue 4, p. 263-275
Two-Dimensional Non-Layered Materials: Synthesis, Properties and Applications
journal, November 2016
- Wang, Feng; Wang, Zhenxing; Shifa, Tofik Ahmed
- Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 27, Issue 19
Elastic and Mechanical Properties of the MAX Phases
journal, August 2011
- Barsoum, Michel W.; Radovic, Miladin
- Annual Review of Materials Research, Vol. 41, Issue 1
High superconducting transition temperatures in the molybdenum carbide family of compounds
journal, July 1967
- Toth, L. E.
- Journal of the Less Common Metals, Vol. 13, Issue 1
Monolayer behaviour in bulk ReS2 due to electronic and vibrational decoupling
journal, February 2014
- Tongay, Sefaattin; Sahin, Hasan; Ko, Changhyun
- Nature Communications, Vol. 5, Issue 1
Homoepitaxial growth of Ti–Si–C MAX-phase thin films on bulk Ti3SiC2 substrates
journal, June 2007
- Eklund, P.; Murugaiah, A.; Emmerlich, J.
- Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol. 304, Issue 1
Introduction to Superconductivity
journal, October 1996
- Tinkham, Michael; Emery, Victor
- Physics Today, Vol. 49, Issue 10
Works referencing / citing this record:
Synthesis and emerging properties of 2D layered III–VI metal chalcogenides
journal, December 2019
- Cai, Hui; Gu, Yiyi; Lin, Yu-Chuan
- Applied Physics Reviews, Vol. 6, Issue 4
Figures / Tables found in this record: