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Large-Area Atomically Thin MoS Nanosheets
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Prepared Using Electrochemical Exfoliation

Na Liu, Paul Kim, Ji Heon Kim, Jun Ho Ye, Sunkook Kim, and Cheol Jin Lee
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7 Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is an extremely intriguing material because of its unique electrical
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14 layer MoS2 nanosheets can be obtained from electrochemical exfoliation of bulk MoS2 crystals.
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undergo low levels of oxidation during electrochemical exfoliation. In addition, microscopic and
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24 spectroscopic characterizations indicate that the exfoliated MoS2 nanosheets are of high quality
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31 mobility is approximately 1.2 cm2·V–1·s–1; these values are comparable to the results for
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54 KEYWORDS: electrochemical exfoliation, MoS2 nanosheets, field-effect transistor, layered
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5 Two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted great attention in the past decade.1-3 Graphene
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14 dichalcogenides, especially molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), because they are atomically thin and
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16 possess a large band gap.8 Structurally analogous to graphene, layered MoS2 comprises planes
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along these planes because of the weak interlayer interactions.9
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27 MoS2 exhibits unique properties and has great potential in electronic, optoelectronic, and
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29 energy-harvesting applications.10-16 The electronic properties of MoS2 are strongly dependent on
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36 MoS2 turns into a direct-band-gap semiconductor with a gap of around 1.8 eV.19 Monolayer
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39 MoS2 field-effect transistors (FETs) with a hafnium-oxide gate dielectric demonstrated typical
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41 mobilities that are over 200 cm2·V–1·s–1 and on/off current ratios as high as 108 at room
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temperature.10 Monolayer MoS2 is suitable for applications in flexible transistors and sensors,
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46 which because it possesses mechanical strength thirty times higher than that of steel.20-22 A great
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exfoliation of bulk MoS2 powder in various organic solvents or aqueous surfactant solutions with
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quality, and an intrinsic structure. A back-gate FET fabricated on exfoliated monolayer MoS2
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MoS2 crystal. The bias was then increased to +10 V for 0.5–2 h to exfoliate the crystal. As a
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together with the key results are listed in Supporting Information Table S1. The exfoliated MoS2
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structure of the MoS2 nanosheet was not damaged during the electrochemical exfoliation
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nanosheet presented in Figure 3b. The map reveals that the majority of the MoS2 nanosheet is
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39 Natural, single-crystalline bulk MoS2 (SPI Supplies, 429MM-AB) was used as the working
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54 The exfoliated MoS2 nanosheets were deposited onto a 300-nm SiO2/Si substrate using the dip-
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16 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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19 This work was supported by World Class University (WCU, R32-2008-000-10082-0) Project
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31 SUPPORTING INFORMATION
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