Processable 2D materials beyond graphene: MoS2 liquid crystals and fibres

Rouhollah Jalili; Sima Aminorroaya-Yamini; Tania M Benedetti; Seyed Hamed Aboutalebi; Yunfeng Chao; Gordon G Wallace; David L Officer

doi:10.1039/c6nr03681c

Processable 2D materials beyond graphene: MoS₂ liquid crystals and fibres

Nanoscale. 2016 Sep 29;8(38):16862-16867. doi: 10.1039/c6nr03681c.

Authors

Rouhollah Jalili¹, Sima Aminorroaya-Yamini², Tania M Benedetti¹, Seyed Hamed Aboutalebi³, Yunfeng Chao¹, Gordon G Wallace¹, David L Officer¹

Affiliations

¹ Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, AIIM Faculty, Innovation Campus, University of Wollongong, North Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia. rjalili@uow.edu.au.
² Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, AIIM Faculty, Innovation Campus, University of Wollongong, North Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia. sima@uow.edu.au.
³ Condensed Matter National Laboratory, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran 19395-5531, Iran.

PMID: 27722479
DOI: 10.1039/c6nr03681c

Abstract

Herein, we show properly engineered MoS₂ crystals can readily form liquid crystalline dispersions in water making them ideal candidates for large-scale manufacturing processes. The guideline provided here can serve as the basis to develop practical protocols to address the long-standing goal of large-scale manufacturing of 2D materials.