Scalable Exfoliation of Bulk MoS2 to Single- and Few-Layers Using Toroidal Taylor Vortices
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Exfoliation of MoS2 Layers with Taylor-Couette Flow
2.2. Characterization
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Exfoliation of Bulk MoS2 in NMP
3.2. Parametric Study for Optimizing the Exfoliation Process
3.3. Characterization of Exfoliated MoS2 Nanosheets
3.4. Continuous Production of Exfoliated MoS2
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Kaushik, V.; Wu, S.; Jang, H.; Kang, J.; Kim, K.; Suk, J.W. Scalable Exfoliation of Bulk MoS2 to Single- and Few-Layers Using Toroidal Taylor Vortices. Nanomaterials 2018, 8, 587. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano8080587
Kaushik V, Wu S, Jang H, Kang J, Kim K, Suk JW. Scalable Exfoliation of Bulk MoS2 to Single- and Few-Layers Using Toroidal Taylor Vortices. Nanomaterials. 2018; 8(8):587. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano8080587
Chicago/Turabian StyleKaushik, Vishakha, Shunhe Wu, Hoyoung Jang, Je Kang, Kyunghoon Kim, and Ji Won Suk. 2018. "Scalable Exfoliation of Bulk MoS2 to Single- and Few-Layers Using Toroidal Taylor Vortices" Nanomaterials 8, no. 8: 587. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano8080587