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  • Review
  • Open Access
118 Citations
9,282 Views
21 Pages

9 January 2020

Biosensors are very important for detecting target molecules with high accuracy, selectivity, and signal-to-noise ratio. Biosensors developed using biomolecules such as enzymes or nucleic acids which were used as the probes for detecting the target m...

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,600 Views
23 Pages

Graphene/MoS2 Nanohybrid for Biosensors

  • Jinho Yoon,
  • Joungpyo Lim,
  • Minkyu Shin,
  • Sang-Nam Lee and
  • Jeong-Woo Choi

21 January 2021

Graphene has been studied a lot in different scientific fields because of its unique properties, including its superior conductivity, plasmonic property, and biocompatibility. More recently, transition metal dicharcogenide (TMD) nanomaterials, beyond...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,840 Views
19 Pages

Highly Selective Room-Temperature Blue LED-Enhanced NO2 Gas Sensors Based on ZnO-MoS2-TiO2 Heterostructures

  • Soraya Y. Flores,
  • Elluz Pacheco,
  • Carlos Malca,
  • Xiaoyan Peng,
  • Yihua Chen,
  • Badi Zhou,
  • Dalice M. Pinero,
  • Liz M. Diaz-Vazquez,
  • Andrew F. Zhou and
  • Peter X. Feng

13 March 2025

This study presents the fabrication and characterization of highly selective, room-temperature gas sensors based on ternary zinc oxide–molybdenum disulfide–titanium dioxide (ZnO-MoS2-TiO2) nanoheterostructures. Integrating two-dimensional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,272 Views
23 Pages

New MoS2/Tegafur-Containing Pharmaceutical Formulations for Selective LED-Based Skin Cancer Photo-Chemotherapy

  • Miguel T. Campos,
  • Filipa A. L. S. Silva,
  • José Ramiro Fernandes,
  • Susana G. Santos,
  • Fernão D. Magalhães,
  • Maria J. Oliveira and
  • Artur M. Pinto

Non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) is one of the most common types of cancer worldwide. Despite the low mortality rate, rising incidence and recurrence rates are a burden on healthcare systems. Standard treatments such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,954 Views
17 Pages

Recent Progress in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides for Electrochemical Biomolecular Detection

  • Sasya Madhurantakam,
  • Georgeena Mathew,
  • Bianca Elizabeth David,
  • Aliya Naqvi and
  • Shalini Prasad

22 November 2023

Advances in the field of nanobiotechnology are largely due to discoveries in the field of materials. Recent developments in the field of electrochemical biosensors based on transition metal nanomaterials as transducer elements have been beneficial as...

  • Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
6,398 Views
21 Pages

Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides in Electrochemical Batteries and Solar Cells

  • Mohammad Bagher Askari,
  • Parisa Salarizadeh,
  • Payam Veisi,
  • Elham Samiei,
  • Homa Saeidfirozeh,
  • Mohammad Taghi Tourchi Moghadam and
  • Antonio Di Bartolomeo

21 March 2023

The advent of new nanomaterials has resulted in dramatic developments in the field of energy production and storage. Due to their unique structure and properties, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are the most promising from the list of materia...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,018 Views
31 Pages

Nano-Biosensors Based on Noble Metal and Semiconductor Materials: Emerging Trends and Future Prospects

  • Liya Feng,
  • Shujia Song,
  • Haonan Li,
  • Renjie He,
  • Shaowen Chen,
  • Jiali Wang,
  • Guo Zhao and
  • Xiande Zhao

17 April 2023

The aim of this review is to gather current researches into sensors based on noble metal and semiconductor nanomaterials in biomedical detection and elucidate the basic principle and applications of different sorts of semiconductor nanomaterials, i.e...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,787 Views
51 Pages

Advances of Functional Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials in the Treatment of Oral Diseases

  • Ziyi Xu,
  • Rong Meng,
  • Yue Wang,
  • Yuxuan Sun,
  • Jiao Qiao,
  • Yang Yao and
  • Qiang Peng

Two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials have attracted growing attention in the field of oral medicine due to their unique physicochemical properties, including high surface area, adjustable surface chemistry, and exceptional biocompatibility. In recent y...

  • Review
  • Open Access
60 Citations
8,278 Views
45 Pages

2 June 2022

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (2D TMDs) have gained considerable attention due to their distinctive properties and broad range of possible applications. One of the most widely studied transition metal dichalcogenides is molybdenum...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,822 Views
52 Pages

27 December 2023

Two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials (e.g., graphene) have attracted growing attention in the (bio)sensing area and, in particular, for biomedical applications because of their unique mechanical and physicochemical properties, such as their high therma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,238 Views
15 Pages

The Key Role of Non-Local Screening in the Environment-Insensitive Exciton Fine Structures of Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers

  • Wei-Hua Li,
  • Jhen-Dong Lin,
  • Ping-Yuan Lo,
  • Guan-Hao Peng,
  • Ching-Yu Hei,
  • Shao-Yu Chen and
  • Shun-Jen Cheng

26 May 2023

In this work, we present a comprehensive theoretical and computational investigation of exciton fine structures of WSe2-monolayers, one of the best-known two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), in various dielectric-layered envi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
131 Citations
11,189 Views
35 Pages

Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials beyond Graphene for Biomedical Applications

  • Maryam Derakhshi,
  • Sahar Daemi,
  • Pegah Shahini,
  • Afagh Habibzadeh,
  • Ebrahim Mostafavi and
  • Ali Akbar Ashkarran

Two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials (e.g., graphene) have shown to have a high potential in future biomedical applications due to their unique physicochemical properties such as unusual electrical conductivity, high biocompatibility, large surface are...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,621 Views
42 Pages

Recent Progress in WS2-Based Nanomaterials Employed for Photocatalytic Water Treatment

  • Aseel Yousef,
  • Zeineb Thiehmed,
  • Rana Abdul Shakoor and
  • Talal Altahtamouni

28 September 2022

Water pollution is one of the most serious environmental issues globally due to its harmful consequences on the ecosystem and public health. Various technologies have been developed for water treatment such as photocatalysis, which has recently drawn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,646 Views
19 Pages

The Effectiveness of Cyrene as a Solvent in Exfoliating 2D TMDs Nanosheets

  • Jaber Adam,
  • Manjot Singh,
  • Avazbek Abduvakhidov,
  • Maria Rosaria Del Sorbo,
  • Chiara Feoli,
  • Fida Hussain,
  • Jasneet Kaur,
  • Antonia Mirabella,
  • Manuela Rossi and
  • Carlo Altucci
  • + 4 authors

The pursuit of environmentally friendly solvents has become an essential research topic in sustainable chemistry and nanomaterial science. With the need to substitute toxic solvents in nanofabrication processes becoming more pressing, the search for...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,836 Views
23 Pages

Two-Dimensional Layered Nanomaterial-Based Electrochemical Biosensors for Detecting Microbial Toxins

  • Zhuheng Li,
  • Xiaotong Li,
  • Minghong Jian,
  • Girma Selale Geleta and
  • Zhenxin Wang

31 December 2019

Toxin detection is an important issue in numerous fields, such as agriculture/food safety, environmental monitoring, and homeland security. During the past two decades, nanotechnology has been extensively used to develop various biosensors for achiev...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,215 Views
32 Pages

16 November 2025

Phase engineering has emerged as a powerful method for manipulating the structural and electrical characteristics of nanomaterials, resulting in significant enhancements in their electrochemical performance. This paper examines the correlation among...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,646 Views
22 Pages

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), a powerful spectroscopic technique owing to its abundant vibrational fingerprints, has been widely employed for the assay of analytes. It is generally considered that one of the critical factors determining t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,391 Views
11 Pages

Efficiency Improvement Using Molybdenum Disulphide Interlayers in Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube/Silicon Solar Cells

  • Shaykha Alzahly,
  • LePing Yu,
  • Cameron J. Shearer,
  • Christopher T. Gibson and
  • Joseph G. Shapter

21 April 2018

Molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) is one of the most studied and widely applied nanomaterials from the layered transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) semiconductor family. MoS2 has a large carrier diffusion length and a high carrier mobility. Combining a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
47 Citations
10,437 Views
51 Pages

Ten Years Progress of Electrical Detection of Heavy Metal Ions (HMIs) Using Various Field-Effect Transistor (FET) Nanosensors: A Review

  • Shaili Falina,
  • Mohd Syamsul,
  • Nuha Abd Rhaffor,
  • Sofiyah Sal Hamid,
  • Khairu Anuar Mohamed Zain,
  • Asrulnizam Abd Manaf and
  • Hiroshi Kawarada

25 November 2021

Heavy metal pollution remains a major concern for the public today, in line with the growing population and global industrialization. Heavy metal ion (HMI) is a threat to human and environmental safety, even at low concentrations, thus rapid and cont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,734 Views
16 Pages

Excited States Calculations of MoS2@ZnO and WS2@ZnO Two-Dimensional Nanocomposites for Water-Splitting Applications

  • Yin-Pai Lin,
  • Boris Polyakov,
  • Edgars Butanovs,
  • Aleksandr A. Popov,
  • Maksim Sokolov,
  • Dmitry Bocharov and
  • Sergei Piskunov

27 December 2021

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) MoS2 and WS2 monolayers (MLs) deposited atop of crystalline zinc oxide (ZnO) and graphene-like ZnO (g-ZnO) substrates have been investigated by means of density functional theory (DFT) using PBE and GLLBSC exchan...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,696 Views
12 Pages

Thermal Relaxation in Janus Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Bilayers

  • Aristotelis P. Sgouros,
  • Fotios I. Michos,
  • Michail M. Sigalas and
  • George Kalosakas

25 August 2024

In this work, we employ molecular dynamics simulations with semi-empirical interatomic potentials to explore heat dissipation in Janus transition metal dichalcogenides (JTMDs). The middle atomic layer is composed of either molybdenum (Mo) or tungsten...