Campus Units
Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, Ames Laboratory
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
6-12-2020
Journal or Book Title
Nature Communications
Volume
11
First Page
3005
DOI
10.1038/s41467-020-16672-0
Abstract
Three-dimensional heterostructures are usually created either by assembling two-dimensional building blocks into hierarchical architectures or using stepwise chemical processes that sequentially deposit individual monolayers. Both approaches suffer from a number of issues, including lack of suitable precursors, limited reproducibility, and poor scalability of the preparation protocols. Therefore, development of alternative methods that enable preparation of heterostructured materials is desired. We create heterostructures with incommensurate arrangements of well-defined building blocks using a synthetic approach that comprises mechanical disassembly and simultaneous reordering of layered transition-metal dichalcogenides, MX2, and non-layered monochalcogenides, REX, where M = Ta, Nb, RE = Sm, La, and X = S, Se. We show that the discovered solid-state processes are rooted in stochastic mechanochemical transformations directed by electronic interaction between chemically and structurally dissimilar solids toward atomic-scale ordering, and offer an alternative to conventional heterostructuring. Details of composition–structure–properties relationships in the studied materials are also highlighted.
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The Author(s)
Copyright Date
2020
Language
en
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application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Dolotko, Oleksandr; Hlova, Ihor; Pathak, Arjun K.; Mudryk, Yaroslav; Pecharsky, Vitalij K.; Singh, Prashant; Johnson, Duane D.; Boote, Brett W.; Li, Jingzhe; Smith, Emily A.; Carnahan, Scott L.; Rossini, Aaron J.; Zhou, Lin; Eastman, Ely M.; and Balema, Viktor P., "Unprecedented generation of 3D heterostructures by mechanochemical disassembly and re-ordering of incommensurate metal chalcogenides" (2020). Materials Science and Engineering Publications. 376.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/mse_pubs/376
Comments
This article is published as Dolotko, Oleksandr, Ihor Z. Hlova, Arjun K. Pathak, Yaroslav Mudryk, Vitalij K. Pecharsky, Prashant Singh, Duane D. Johnson, Brett W. Boote, Jingzhe Li, Emily A. Smith, Scott L. Carnahan, Aaron J. Rossini, Lin Zhou, Ely M. Eastman, and Viktor P. Balema. "Unprecedented generation of 3D heterostructures by mechanochemical disassembly and re-ordering of incommensurate metal chalcogenides." Nature Communications 11 (2020): 3005. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16672-0. Posted with permission.