Phase-Controllable Synthesis of Ultrathin Molybdenum Nitride Crystals Via Atomic Substitution of MoS2

Gao, Hongze; Cao, Jun; Li, Tianshu; Luo, Weijun; Gray, Mason; Kumar, Narendra; Burch, Kenneth S.; Ling, Xi

doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c03712

Title: Phase-Controllable Synthesis of Ultrathin Molybdenum Nitride Crystals Via Atomic Substitution of MoS₂

Journal Article · 27 December 2021 · Chemistry of Materials

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c03712 · OSTI ID:1865049

Gao, Hongze ^[1]; Cao, Jun ^[2]; Li, Tianshu ^[2]; Luo, Weijun ^[2];

^[3];

^[2]

Boston Univ., MA (United States); Boston University
Boston Univ., MA (United States)
Boston College, MA (United States)

MXenes are emerging members in the two-dimensional (2D) material family and are highlighted by their high electrical conductivity. Among different MXenes, molybdenum-based MXenes, especially molybdenum nitrides (MoN_x), are rarely accessible through the common synthetic approach of selective etching due to the absence of stable MAX phase precursors. In this work, we apply the atomic substitution approach to synthesize two phases of ultrathin nonlayered molybdenum nitrides (i.e., Mo₅N₆ and δ-MoN) from 1.6 to 42.9 nm thickness by converting layered MoS₂ under different temperatures. The morphology and 2D nature of MoS₂ are well remained in both phases. These newly created 2D materials are further characterized using Raman spectroscopy, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, and electrical measurements, suggesting that both phases are highly crystalline and highly conductive down to the thickness of a few nanometers. Moreover, Ohmic contacts are formed between the ultrathin nitrides and Cr/Au electrodes, suggesting the great potential of the obtained nitrides for nanoelectronic device applications. The stability test shows that the Ohmic contact is well maintained after 4 weeks under ambient conditions with a slight degradation in conductivity. Furthermore, this study extends the 2D family by providing highly conductive members, offering desired building blocks for solid-state nanoelectronic devices.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

Cite

Export

Save

Research Organization:: Boston Univ., MA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0018675; SC0021064

OSTI ID:: 1865049

Journal Information:: Chemistry of Materials, Journal Name: Chemistry of Materials Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 34; ISSN 0897-4756

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

References (44)

Highly Conductive Optical Quality Solution-Processed Films of 2D Titanium Carbide Dillon, Andrew D.; Ghidiu, Michael J.; Krick, Alex L. Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 26, Issue 23 https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201600357	journal	April 2016
Two-Dimensional Nanocrystals Produced by Exfoliation of Ti₃AlC₂ Naguib, Michael; Kurtoglu, Murat; Presser, Volker Advanced Materials, Vol. 23, Issue 37, p. 4248-4253 https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201102306	journal	August 2011
25th Anniversary Article: MXenes: A New Family of Two-Dimensional Materials Naguib, Michael; Mochalin, Vadym N.; Barsoum, Michel W. Advanced Materials, Vol. 26, Issue 7, p. 992-1005 https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201304138	journal	December 2013
Direct Synthesis of Large-Area 2D Mo ₂ C on In Situ Grown Graphene Geng, Dechao; Zhao, Xiaoxu; Chen, Zhongxin Advanced Materials, Vol. 29, Issue 35 https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201700072	journal	July 2017
Vanadium Diselenide Single Crystals: Van der Waals Epitaxial Growth of 2D Metallic Vanadium Diselenide Single Crystals and their Extra‐High Electrical Conductivity (Adv. Mater. 37/2017) Zhang, Zhepeng; Niu, Jingjing; Yang, Pengfei Advanced Materials, Vol. 29, Issue 37 https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201770271	journal	July 2017
Electronic and Optical Properties of 2D Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides (MXenes) Hantanasirisakul, Kanit; Gogotsi, Yury Advanced Materials, Vol. 30, Issue 52 https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201804779	journal	November 2018
Probing the Domain Architecture in 2D α-Mo ₂ C via Polarized Raman Spectroscopy Li, Tianshu; Luo, Weijun; Kitadai, Hikari Advanced Materials, Vol. 31, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201807160	journal	January 2019
Fabrication of Ti ₃ C ₂ T _x MXene Transparent Thin Films with Tunable Optoelectronic Properties Hantanasirisakul, Kanit; Zhao, Meng-Qiang; Urbankowski, Patrick Advanced Electronic Materials, Vol. 2, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201600050	journal	April 2016
Metallic two-dimensional metal-organic framework arrays for ultrafast water splitting Sun, Yuntong; Ding, Shan; Xu, Shuaishuai Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 494 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2021.229733	journal	May 2021
Crystal structure and high-pressure properties of γ-Mo2N determined by neutron powder diffraction and X-ray diffraction Bull, Craig L.; Kawashima, Tetsuya; McMillan, Paul F. Journal of Solid State Chemistry, Vol. 179, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2006.03.011	journal	June 2006
Synthesis and characterisation of hexagonal molybdenum nitrides Ganin, Alexey Yu.; Kienle, Lorenz; Vajenine, Grigori V. Journal of Solid State Chemistry, Vol. 179, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2006.05.025	journal	August 2006
Metallic 1T phase MoS2 nanosheets for high-performance thermoelectric energy harvesting Huang, Huihui; Cui, Yue; Li, Qi Nano Energy, Vol. 26 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2016.05.022	journal	August 2016
Original Synthesis of Molybdenum Nitrides Using Metal Cluster Compounds as Precursors: Applications in Heterogeneous Catalysis Guy, Kevin; Tessier, Franck; Kaper, Helena Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 32, Issue 14 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c01369	journal	May 2020
Guidelines for Synthesis and Processing of Two-Dimensional Titanium Carbide (Ti ₃ C ₂ T _x MXene) Alhabeb, Mohamed; Maleski, Kathleen; Anasori, Babak Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 29, Issue 18 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b02847	journal	September 2017
Salt-Templated Synthesis of 2D Metallic MoN and Other Nitrides Xiao, Xu; Yu, Huimin; Jin, Huanyu ACS Nano, Vol. 11, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.6b08534	journal	February 2017
Metallic Ti ₃ C ₂ T _x MXene Gas Sensors with Ultrahigh Signal-to-Noise Ratio Kim, Seon Joon; Koh, Hyeong-Jun; Ren, Chang E. ACS Nano, Vol. 12, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b07460	journal	January 2018
Environment-Sensitive Photoresponse of Spontaneously Partially Oxidized Ti ₃ C ₂ MXene Thin Films Chertopalov, Sergii; Mochalin, Vadym N. ACS Nano, Vol. 12, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.8b02379	journal	May 2018
Single-Crystal Nitrogen-Rich Two-Dimensional Mo ₅ N ₆ Nanosheets for Efficient and Stable Seawater Splitting Jin, Huanyu; Liu, Xin; Vasileff, Anthony ACS Nano, Vol. 12, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.8b07841	journal	November 2018
Prediction of Synthesis of 2D Metal Carbides and Nitrides (MXenes) and Their Precursors with Positive and Unlabeled Machine Learning Frey, Nathan C.; Wang, Jin; Vega Bellido, Gabriel Iván ACS Nano, Vol. 13, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.8b08014	journal	March 2019
Transparent Conductive Two-Dimensional Titanium Carbide Epitaxial Thin Films Halim, Joseph; Lukatskaya, Maria R.; Cook, Kevin M. Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 26, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1021/cm500641a	journal	March 2014
A New Molybdenum Nitride Catalyst with Rhombohedral MoS ₂ Structure for Hydrogenation Applications Wang, Shanmin; Ge, Hui; Sun, Shouli Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 137, Issue 14 https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b01446	journal	April 2015
Emerging Photoluminescence in Monolayer MoS₂ Splendiani, Andrea; Sun, Liang; Zhang, Yuanbo Nano Letters, Vol. 10, Issue 4, p. 1271-1275 https://doi.org/10.1021/nl903868w	journal	April 2010
Anomalous Lattice Vibrations of Single- and Few-Layer MoS ₂ Lee, Changgu; Yan, Hugen; Brus, Louis E. ACS Nano, Vol. 4, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1021/nn1003937	journal	March 2010
Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Carbides Naguib, Michael; Mashtalir, Olha; Carle, Joshua ACS Nano, Vol. 6, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1021/nn204153h	journal	January 2012
Intercalation and delamination of layered carbides and carbonitrides Mashtalir, Olha; Naguib, Michael; Mochalin, Vadym N. Nature Communications, Vol. 4, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2664	journal	April 2013
Phase-engineered low-resistance contacts for ultrathin MoS₂ transistors Kappera, Rajesh; Voiry, Damien; Yalcin, Sibel Ebru Nature Materials, Vol. 13, Issue 12, p. 1128-1134 https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4080	journal	August 2014
Large-area high-quality 2D ultrathin Mo2C superconducting crystals Xu, Chuan; Wang, Libin; Liu, Zhibo Nature Materials, Vol. 14, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4374	journal	August 2015
Roll-to-roll production of 30-inch graphene films for transparent electrodes Bae, Sukang; Kim, Hyeongkeun; Lee, Youngbin Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 5, Issue 8, p. 574-578 https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2010.132	journal	June 2010
Metallic 1T phase MoS2 nanosheets as supercapacitor electrode materials Acerce, Muharrem; Voiry, Damien; Chhowalla, Manish Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 10, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.40	journal	March 2015
Control of MXenes’ electronic properties through termination and intercalation Hart, James L.; Hantanasirisakul, Kanit; Lang, Andrew C. Nature Communications, Vol. 10, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08169-8	journal	January 2019
Low temperature synthesis of plasmonic molybdenum nitride nanosheets for surface enhanced Raman scattering Guan, Haomin; Yi, Wencai; Li, Tao Nature Communications, Vol. 11, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17628-0	journal	August 2020
Phase Stability and Compressibility of 3R-MoN2 at High Pressure Zhou, Xuefeng; Yan, Mingqi; Dong, Mingdong Scientific Reports, Vol. 9, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46822-4	journal	July 2019
Oxidation stability of Ti3C2Tx MXene nanosheets in solvents and composite films Habib, Touseef; Zhao, Xiaofei; Shah, Smit A. npj 2D Materials and Applications, Vol. 3, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41699-019-0089-3	journal	February 2019
All-MXene (2D titanium carbide) solid-state microsupercapacitors for on-chip energy storage Peng, You-Yu; Akuzum, Bilen; Kurra, Narendra Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 9, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1039/c6ee01717g	journal	January 2016
Solution-processed titanium carbide MXene films examined as highly transparent conductors Mariano, Marina; Mashtalir, Olha; Antonio, Francisco Q. Nanoscale, Vol. 8, Issue 36 https://doi.org/10.1039/c6nr03682a	journal	January 2016
2D molybdenum and vanadium nitrides synthesized by ammoniation of 2D transition metal carbides (MXenes) Urbankowski, Patrick; Anasori, Babak; Hantanasirisakul, Kanit Nanoscale, Vol. 9, Issue 45 https://doi.org/10.1039/c7nr06721f	journal	January 2017
A cleanroom in a glovebox Gray, Mason J.; Kumar, Narendra; O’Connor, Ryan Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 91, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0006462	journal	July 2020
Transparent, conductive solution processed spincast 2D Ti ₂ CT _x (MXene) films Ying, Guobing; Dillon, Andrew D.; Fafarman, Aaron T. Materials Research Letters, Vol. 5, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1080/21663831.2017.1296043	journal	March 2017
Two-dimensional metallic NbS ₂ : growth, optical identification and transport properties Zhao, Sihan; Hotta, Takato; Koretsune, Takashi 2D Materials, Vol. 3, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/3/2/025027	journal	May 2016
Synthesis of molybdenum nitrides nanosheets by nitriding 2H-MoS ₂ with ammonia Sun, Guo-Dong; Zhang, Guo-Hua; Chou, Kuo-Chih Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol. 101, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.15467	journal	February 2018
Realization of 2D crystalline metal nitrides via selective atomic substitution Cao, Jun; Li, Tianshu; Gao, Hongze Science Advances, Vol. 6, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax8784	journal	January 2020
Chemical vapor deposition of layered two-dimensional MoSi ₂ N ₄ materials Hong, Yi-Lun; Liu, Zhibo; Wang, Lei Science, Vol. 369, Issue 6504 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb7023	journal	August 2020
Molybdenum Nitride Films: Crystal Structures, Synthesis, Mechanical, Electrical and Some Other Properties Jauberteau, Isabelle; Bessaudou, Annie; Mayet, Richard Coatings, Vol. 5, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings5040656	journal	October 2015
The Stability of Metallic MoS2 Nanosheets and Their Property Change by Annealing Li, Li; Chen, Jiyang; Wu, Keyue Nanomaterials, Vol. 9, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9101366	journal	September 2019

Similar Records

Controlled growth of ultrathin Mo₂C superconducting crystals on liquid Cu surface

Journal Article · 2016 · 2D Materials · OSTI ID:1362250

Geng, Dechao; Zhao, Xiaoxu; Li, Linjun; +8 more

Role of vacancies in tuning the electronic properties of Au-MoS{sub 2} contact

Journal Article · 2015 · AIP Advances · OSTI ID:22492279

Su, Jie; Li, Ning; Zhang, Yingying; +2 more

MoS₂-on-MXene Heterostructures as Highly Reversible Anode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries

Journal Article · 2018 · Angewandte Chemie (International Edition) · OSTI ID:1435245

Chen, Chi; Xie, Xiuqiang; Anasori, Babak; +7 more

Related Subjects

77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
Crystals
Electrical conductivity
Electrodes
Thickness
Two dimensional materials

Title: Phase-Controllable Synthesis of Ultrathin Molybdenum Nitride Crystals Via Atomic Substitution of MoS2

Citation Formats

References (44)

Similar Records

Related Subjects

Title: Phase-Controllable Synthesis of Ultrathin Molybdenum Nitride Crystals Via Atomic Substitution of MoS₂