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Project overview

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are inorganic materials of formula ME₂ (M = metal; E = chalcogen = sulfur, selenium or tellurium). They form 2-dimensional layered hexagonal structures related to that of cadmium diiodide, in which the metal-chalcogen bonding within the layers is very strong, whilst that between the layers is much weaker (van der Waals interactions) - i.e. inorganic analogues of graphite. They form a class of extremely important functional semiconductors, and by changing the metal or chalcogen type, the semiconductor band gap can be tuned, making them useful for a wide range of applications. As a result of both their structures and their semiconducting properties, these materials are widely considered to have the potential to revolutionalise next generation electronics, e.g. allowing the mass manufacture of 2D nanotransistors, leading to more powerful and faster devices.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Gill Reid

PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY

Research interests

Synthetic inorganic chemistry
Design and synthesis of new macrocyclic and multidentate ligands involving donor atoms from Groups 15 (P, As, Sb, Bi) and 16 (S, Se, Te)
Coordination chemistry with s-, p-, d- and f-block metal ions

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Other researchers

Professor Andrew Hector

Head of School

Research interests

Materials synthesis, including metal nitrides, thin film materials, sol-gel and solvothermal processes and porous structures.
Materials characterisation – powder and thin film diffraction, microscopy and spectroscopy techniques.
Electrochemistry, including charge storage in battery and supercapacitor type cells, and electrodeposition of various materials.

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Professor Kees De Groot

Professor

Research interests

Radio-Frequency and Microwave Devices
2 dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Transistors
Smart Radiative Cooling and RF control of smart glass using metal oxides such as Al-doped ZnO and W-doped VO2

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Professor Philip Bartlett

Professor of Chemistry

Research interests

Electrochemistry
Bioelectrochemistry
Templated electrodeposition of nanomaterials

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Research outputs

Pyramidal dicationic Ge(II) complexes with homoleptic neutral pnictine coordination: a combined experimental and density functional theory study

Rhys, Paul King, Victoria Greenacre, William Levason, John Dyke & Gillian Reid, 2021, Inorganic Chemistry, 60(16), 12100–12108

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01308

Type: article

Lateral growth of MoS₂ 2D material semiconductors over an insulator via electrodeposition

Yasir Noori, Nema Abdelazim, Shibin Thomas, Victoria Greenacre, Yisong Han, Danielle E. Smith, Giacomo M Piana, Nikolay Zhelev, Andrew L. Hector, Richard Beanland, Gillian Reid, Philip N. Bartlett & Kees De Groot, 2021, Advanced Electronic Materials, 7(9), 1-8

DOI: 10.1002/aelm.202100419

Type: article

The reactions of MoOCl₄ with neutral Group 15 and 16 ligands and a re-investigation of some N-donor ligand complexes of MoOCl₃

Victoria Greenacre, William Levason, James Powell, Gillian Reid & Danielle E. Smith, 2021, Polyhedron, 204

DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2021.115262

Type: article

Developments in the chemistry of stibine and bismuthine complexes

Victoria Greenacre, William Levason & Gillian Reid, 2021, Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 432

DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2020.213698

Type: review

Synthesis, properties and structural features of molybdenum(V) oxide trichloride complexes with neutral chalcogenoether ligands

Danielle E. Smith, William Levason, James Powell & Gillian Reid, 2021, Dalton Transactions, 50(12), 4380-4389