Inert Liquid Exfoliation and Langmuir-Type Thin Film Deposition of Semimetallic Metal Diborides.

ABSTRACT: Graphite is one of only a few layered materials that can be exfoliated into nanosheets with semimetallic properties, which limits the applications of nanosheet-based electrodes to material combinations compatible with the work function of graphene. It is therefore important to identify additional metallic or semimetallic two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials that can be processed in solution for scalable fabrication of printed electronic devices. Metal diborides represent a family of layered non-van der Waals crystals with semimetallic properties for all nanosheet thicknesses. While previous reports show that the exfoliated nanomaterial is prone to oxidation, we demonstrate a readily accessible inert exfoliation process to produce quasi-2D nanoplatelets with intrinsic material properties. For

SUBMITTER: Synnatschke K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11503910 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature