Researchers Find “Potentially Scalable” Way to Make 2D Moly Diselenide

Phys.org reported that researchers at Singapore’s Rice University and Nanyang Technological University have found a “potentially scalable” way to make molybdenum diselenide layers that are just 1 atom thick.

Molybdenum diselenide is a semiconductor that is similar to graphene, but in some ways even better.

As quoted in the market news:

The method for making two-dimensional molybdenum diselenide uses a technique known as chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and is described online in a new paper in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano. The finding is significant because CVD is widely used by the semiconductor and materials industries to make thin films of silicon, carbon fibers and other materials.

Study leader Pulickel Ajayan, chair of Rice’s Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, commented:

This new method will allow us to exploit the properties of molybdenum diselenide in a number of applications. Unlike graphene, which can now easily be made in large sheets, many interesting 2-D materials remain difficult to synthesize. Now that we have a stable, efficient way to produce 2-D molybdenum diselenide, we are planning to expand this robust procedure to other 2-D materials.

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