Sonication-assisted liquid phase exfoliation of two-dimensional CrTe₃ under inert conditions.

ABSTRACT: Liquid phase exfoliation (LPE) has been used for the successful fabrication of nanosheets from a large number of van der Waals materials. While this allows to study fundamental changes of material properties' associated with reduced dimensions, it also changes the chemistry of many materials due to a significant increase of the effective surface area, often accompanied with enhanced reactivity and accelerated oxidation. To prevent material decomposition, LPE and processing in inert atmosphere have been developed, which enables the preparation of pristine nanomaterials, and to systematically study compositional changes over time for different storage conditions. Here, we demonstrate the inert exfoliation of the oxidation-sensitive van der Waals crystal, CrTe₃. The pristine nanoma

SUBMITTER: Synnatschke K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10407284 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature