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Low-Temperature Synthesis of Near-Monodisperse Globular MoS₂ Nanoparticles with Sulphur Powders

Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), 30 Xueyuan Road, District of Haidian, Beijing 10083, P. R. China

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Xuequan Li

Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), 30 Xueyuan Road, District of Haidian, Beijing 10083, P. R. China

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Kai Yan

Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Chengfu Road, District of Haidian, Beijing P. R. China

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Guicheng Liu

Center for Energy Convergence Research, Green City Research Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Hwarang-ro 14-gil 5, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea

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Weixing Song

Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), 30 Xueyuan Road, District of Haidian, Beijing 10083, P. R. China

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Ting Shen

Institute of Advanced Materials and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyua Road, District of Haidian, Beijing 100083, P. R. China

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Dechun Zou

Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), 30 Xueyuan Road, District of Haidian, Beijing 10083, P. R. China

E-mail Address: dczou@pku.edu.cn

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793292017500916Cited by:4 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

Nanoparticles (NPs) with high uniformity have been extensively investigated for their excellent chemical stability. Near-monodisperse globular MoS₂ NPs were prepared with sulphur powders (SPs) as a sulphur source by a one-pot polyol-mediated process without surfactants, transfer agents and toxic agents at 170–190 $^{\circ}$ $^{\circ}$ C. The as-processed SPs greatly affected the formation of the MoS₂ NPs after low-activity sulphur (S₈)_n was reassembled from common SPs (S $_{8})$ $_{8})$ . The average size of MoS₂ NPs can be reduced remarkably from 100–200nm to 50nm by introducing low amounts of MnCl₂. A preliminary four-step growth mechanism based on the aggregation-coalescence model was also proposed. This green and simple method may be an alternative to the common hot-injection and heating-up methods for the preparation of monodisperse NPs, particularly transition metal dichalogenides.

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