Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Strain-driven growth of ultra-long two-dimensional nano-channels

  • Chao Zhu,
  • Maolin Yu,
  • Jiadong Zhou,
  • Yongmin He,
  • Qingsheng Zeng,
  • Ya Deng,
  • Shasha Guo,
  • Mingquan Xu,
  • Jinan Shi,
  • Wu Zhou,
  • Litao Sun,
  • Lin Wang,
  • Zhili Hu,
  • Zhuhua Zhang,
  • Wanlin Guo,
  • Zheng Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14521-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Controlled growth of heterostructures within 10 nm scale is crucial for potential applications of transition metal dichalcogenides. Here, the authors report strain-driven synthesis of ultra-long MoS2 nano-channels having several micrometers length and 2–30 nm width embedded within MoSe2 monolayer.