Rhombohedrally stacked layered transition metal dichalcogenides and their electrocatalytic applications.

Layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are extensively investigated as catalyst materials for a wide range of electrochemical applications due to their high surface area and versatile electronic and chemical properties. Bulk TMDCs are van der Waals solids that possess strong in-plane bonding and weak inter-layer interactions. In the few-layer 2D TMDCs, several polymorphic structures have been reported as each individual layer can either retain octahedral or trigonal prismatic coordination.

Electrostatic co-assembly of FePS nanosheets and surface functionalized BCN heterostructures for hydrogen evolution reaction.

Advances in the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) are intricately connected with addressing the current energy crisis and quest for sustainable energy sources. The necessity of catalysts that are efficient and inexpensive to perform the hydrogen evolution reaction is key to this. Following the ground-breaking discovery of graphene, metal thio/seleno phosphates (MPX: M - transition metal, P - phosphorus and X - S/Se), two dimensional (2D) materials, exhibit excellent tunable physicochemical, electronic and optical properties, and are expected to be key to the energy industry for years to come.

Synthesis, characterization, surface properties and energy device characterstics of 2D borocarbonitrides, (BN) C , covalently cross-linked with sheets of other 2D materials.

Covalent cross-linking of 2D structures such as graphene, MoS and CN using coupling reactions affords the generation of novel materials with new or improved properties. These covalently cross-linked structures provide the counter point to the van der Waals heterostructures, with an entirely different set of features and potential applications. In this article, we describe the materials obtained by bonding borocarbonitride (BCN) layers with BCN layers as well as with other layered structures such as MoS and CN.