Using chemical exfoliation to produce superconducting tungsten disulfide ink

Phys.org  March 23, 2023 Liquid-phase chemical exfoliation can achieve industry-scale production of 2D materials for a wide range of applications. However, because of their sensitivity to air and depreciation of physical performance many 2D materials cannot be used for practical application. An international team of researchers (USA – Princeton, Rutgers Universty, Germany) has developed a chemical exfoliation method to create a stable, aqueous, surfactant-free, superconducting ink containing phase-pure 1T”S2 monolayers that are isostructural to the air-sensitive topological insulator 1T′-WTe2. The printed film was metallic at room temperature and superconducting below 7.3 kelvin, showed strong anisotropic unconventional superconducting behavior with an […]