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Pelella A, Kumar A, Intonti K, Durante O, De Stefano S, Han X, Li Z, Guo Y, Giubileo F, Camilli L, Passacantando M, Zak A, Di Bartolomeo A. WS 2 Nanotube Transistor for Photodetection and Optoelectronic Memory Applications. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2024:e2403965. [PMID: 38994696 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202403965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2024] [Revised: 06/28/2024] [Indexed: 07/13/2024]
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Nanotube and nanowire transistors hold great promises for future electronic and optoelectronic devices owing to their downscaling possibilities. In this work, a single multi-walled tungsten disulfide (WS2) nanotube is utilized as the channel of a back-gated field-effect transistor. The device exhibits a p-type behavior in ambient conditions, with a hole mobility µp ≈ 1.4 cm2V-1s-1 and a subthreshold swing SS ≈ 10 V dec-1. Current-voltage characterization at different temperatures reveals that the device presents two slightly different asymmetric Schottky barriers at drain and source contacts. Self-powered photoconduction driven by the photovoltaic effect is demonstrated, and a photoresponsivity R ≈ 10 mAW-1 at 2 V drain bias and room temperature. Moreover, the transistor is tested for data storage applications. A two-state memory is reported, where positive and negative gate pulses drive the switching between two different current states, separated by a window of 130%. Finally, gate and light pulses are combined to demonstrate an optoelectronic memory with four well-separated states. The results herein presented are promising for data storage, Boolean logic, and neural network applications.
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- Aniello Pelella
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Via Della Ricerca Scientifica, Rome, 00133, Italy
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- Department of Physics "E. R. Caianiello", University of Salerno, via Giovanni Paolo II, Fisciano, Salerno, 84084, Italy
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- Department of Physics "E. R. Caianiello", University of Salerno, via Giovanni Paolo II, Fisciano, Salerno, 84084, Italy
- CNR-SPIN Salerno, via Giovanni Paolo II, Fisciano, Salerno, 84084, Italy
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- Department of Physics "E. R. Caianiello", University of Salerno, via Giovanni Paolo II, Fisciano, Salerno, 84084, Italy
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- Department of Physics "E. R. Caianiello", University of Salerno, via Giovanni Paolo II, Fisciano, Salerno, 84084, Italy
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- Beijing Institute of Technology, Haidian, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Beijing Institute of Technology, Haidian, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Beijing Institute of Technology, Haidian, Beijing, 100081, China
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- CNR-SPIN Salerno, via Giovanni Paolo II, Fisciano, Salerno, 84084, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Via Della Ricerca Scientifica, Rome, 00133, Italy
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- Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, Coppito, L'Aquila, 67100, Italy
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- Faculty of Sciences, Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, 58102, Israel
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- Department of Physics "E. R. Caianiello", University of Salerno, via Giovanni Paolo II, Fisciano, Salerno, 84084, Italy
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Yadgarov L, Tenne R. Nanotubes from Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: Recent Progress in the Synthesis, Characterization and Electrooptical Properties. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2024:e2400503. [PMID: 38953349 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202400503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2024] [Revised: 06/02/2024] [Indexed: 07/04/2024]
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Inorganic layered compounds (2D-materials), particularly transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC), are the focus of intensive research in recent years. Shortly after the discovery of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in 1991, it was hypothesized that nanostructures of 2D-materials can also fold and seam forming, thereby nanotubes (NTs). Indeed, nanotubes (and fullerene-like nanoparticles) of WS2 and subsequently from MoS2 were reported shortly after CNT. However, TMDC nanotubes received much less attention than CNT until recently, likely because they cannot be easily produced as single wall nanotubes with well-defined chiral angles. Nonetheless, NTs from inorganic layered compounds have become a fertile field of research in recent years. Much progress has been achieved in the high-temperature synthesis of TMDC nanotubes of different kinds, as well as their characterization and the study of their properties and potential applications. Their multiwall structure is found to be a blessing rather than a curse, leading to intriguing observations. This concise minireview is dedicated to the recent progress in the research of TMDC nanotubes. After reviewing the progress in their synthesis and structural characterization, their contributions to the research fields of energy conversion and storage, polymer nanocomposites, andunique optoelectronic devices are being reviewed. These studies suggest numerous potential applications for TMDC nanotubes in various technologies, which are briefly discussed.
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- Lena Yadgarov
- The Department of Chemical Engineering, Ariel University, Ramat HaGolan St 65, Ariel, 4077625, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science, Weizmann Institute, Hertzl Street 234, Rehovot, 7610010, Israel
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de Albornoz-Caratozzolo JM, Cervantes-Sodi F. Chiraltube, rolling 2D materials into chiral nanotubes. NANOSCALE ADVANCES 2023; 6:79-91. [PMID: 38125603 PMCID: PMC10729892 DOI: 10.1039/d3na00301a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 09/30/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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Carbon nanotubes (NTs) are graphene sheets rolled into a 1D material, with a specific chirality that defines its structure and properties. Graphene has triggered the development of thousands of 2D materials, which in principle could also be rolled into 1D NTs. However, most of these NTs have not been proposed due to difficulties in the generation of atomic coordinates for chiral NTs from 2D materials with a non-hexagonal lattice or multi-layered materials. In this paper we present Chiraltube, an open-source Python code that allows the quick generation of a complete NT with any chirality from the unit cell of its original 2D material. We explain the inner workings of the code as well as the theoretical background on which it is built, generalizing concepts from the construction of chiral and achiral carbon NTs to work on any other 2D material. We show various examples of the resulting chiral NT structures built from phosphorene, MoS2 and Ti3C2, and present some analysis on the interatomic distortion in the outermost layers of these NTs, as well as the results of ab initio electronic structure calculations on a set of phosphorene NTs generated by the program, showing the immediate practicality and usefulness of the program. We also explore some limitations and details of the tool as well as further work to be done.
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- José M de Albornoz-Caratozzolo
- Universidad Iberoamericana, Physics and Mathematics Department Prol. Paseo de la Reforma 880 Lomas de Santa Fe Ciudad de México Mexico +52 55 59504275
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- Universidad Iberoamericana, Physics and Mathematics Department Prol. Paseo de la Reforma 880 Lomas de Santa Fe Ciudad de México Mexico +52 55 59504275
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Kim B, Park N, Kim J. Giant bulk photovoltaic effect driven by the wall-to-wall charge shift in WS 2 nanotubes. Nat Commun 2022; 13:3237. [PMID: 35688833 PMCID: PMC9187746 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31018-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2021] [Accepted: 05/27/2022] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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The intrinsic light–matter characteristics of transition-metal dichalcogenides have not only been of great scientific interest but have also provided novel opportunities for the development of advanced optoelectronic devices. Among the family of transition-metal dichalcogenide structures, the one-dimensional nanotube is particularly attractive because it produces a spontaneous photocurrent that is prohibited in its higher-dimensional counterparts. Here, we show that WS2 nanotubes exhibit a giant shift current near the infrared region, amounting to four times the previously reported values in the higher frequency range. The wall-to-wall charge shift constitutes a key advantage of the one-dimensional nanotube geometry, and we consider a Janus-type heteroatomic configuration that can maximize this interwall effect. To assess the nonlinear effect of a strong field and the nonadiabatic effect of atomic motion, we carried out direct real-time integration of the photoinduced current using time-dependent density functional theory. Our findings provide a solid basis for a complete quantum mechanical understanding of the unique light–matter interaction hidden in the geometric characteristics of the reduced dimension. We demonstrate that double-wall or multi-wall WS2 nanotubes can exhibit unexpectedly efficient bulk photovoltaic effect owing to its unique inter-wall charge-shifting excitations.
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- Bumseop Kim
- Department of Physics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, 689-798, Korea
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- Department of Physics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, 689-798, Korea.
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- Department of Physics, Incheon National University, Incheon, 406-772, Korea.
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Kumar A, Sood A, Han SS. Molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2)-based nanostructures for tissue engineering applications: prospects and challenges. J Mater Chem B 2022; 10:2761-2780. [PMID: 35262167 DOI: 10.1039/d2tb00131d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanostructures have recently earned substantial thoughts from the scientific communities owing to their unique physicochemical, optical and electrical properties. Although MoS2 has been mostly highlighted for its industrial applications, its biological applicability has not been extensively explored. The introduction of nanotechnology in the field of tissue engineering has significantly contributed to human welfare by displaying advancement in tissue regeneration. Assimilation of MoS2 nanostructures into the polymer matrix has been considered a persuasive material of choice for futuristic tissue engineering applications. The current review provides a general discussion on the structural properties of different MoS2 nanostructures. Further, this article focuses on the interactions of MoS2 with biological systems in terms of its cellular toxicity, and biocompatibility along with its capability for cell proliferation, adhesion, and immunomodulation. The article continues to confer the utility of MoS2 nanostructure-based scaffolds for various tissue engineering applications. The article also highlights some emerging prospects and possibilities of the applicability of MoS2-based nanostructures in large organ tissue engineering. Finally, the article concludes with a brief annotation on the challenges and limitations that need to be overcome in order to make plentiful use of this wonderful material for tissue engineering applications.
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- Anuj Kumar
- School of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, 280 Daehak-ro, Gyeongsan 38541, Korea. .,Institute of Cell Culture, Yeungnam University, 280 Daehak-ro, Gyeongsan 38541, Korea
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, 280 Daehak-ro, Gyeongsan 38541, Korea.
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, 280 Daehak-ro, Gyeongsan 38541, Korea. .,Institute of Cell Culture, Yeungnam University, 280 Daehak-ro, Gyeongsan 38541, Korea
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Domnin AV, Bandura AV, Evarestov RA. First‐Principles Calculations of Phonons and Thermodynamic Properties of Zr(Hf)S
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‐Based Nanotubes. J Comput Chem 2019; 41:759-768. [DOI: 10.1002/jcc.26124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2019] [Revised: 11/13/2019] [Accepted: 11/18/2019] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- Anton V. Domnin
- TheoMAT Group, ITMO University Lomonosova 9 St. Petersburg 191002 Russian Federation
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- Quantum Chemistry DepartmentSt. Petersburg State University 7/9 Universitetskaya Nabereznaya St. Petersburg 199034 Russian Federation
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- Quantum Chemistry DepartmentSt. Petersburg State University 7/9 Universitetskaya Nabereznaya St. Petersburg 199034 Russian Federation
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D’yachkov EP, D’yachkov PN. Electronic Structure of WS2 Nanotubes—Potential Catalysts of Water Photolysis. RUSS J INORG CHEM+ 2019. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036023619090080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Piskunov S, Lisovski O, Zhukovskii YF, D’yachkov PN, Evarestov RA, Kenmoe S, Spohr E. First-Principles Evaluation of the Morphology of WS 2 Nanotubes for Application as Visible-Light-Driven Water-Splitting Photocatalysts. ACS OMEGA 2019; 4:1434-1442. [PMID: 31459410 PMCID: PMC6648604 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b03121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2018] [Accepted: 01/08/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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One-dimensional tungsten disulfide (WS2) single-walled nanotubes (NTs) with either achiral, i.e., armchair (n, n) and zigzag-type (n, 0), or chiral (2n, n) configuration with diameters d NT > 1.9 nm have been found to be suitable for photocatalytic applications, since their band gaps correspond to the frequency range of visible light between red and violet (1.5 eV < Δεgap < 2.6 eV). We have simulated the electronic structure of nanotubes with diameters up to 12.0 nm. The calculated top of the valence band and the bottom of the conduction band (εVB and εCB, respectively) have been properly aligned relatively to the oxidation (εO2/H2O) and reduction (εH2/H2O) potentials of water. Very narrow nanotubes (0.5 < d NT < 1.9 nm) are unsuitable for water splitting because the condition εVB < εO2/H2O < εH2/H2O < εCB does not hold. For nanotubes with d NT > 1.9 nm, the condition εVB < εO2/H2O < εH2/H2O < εCB is fulfilled. The values of εVB and εCB have been found to depend only on the diameter and not on the chirality index of the nanotube. The reported structural and electronic properties have been obtained from either hybrid density functional theory and Hartree-Fock linear combination of atomic orbitals calculations (using the HSE06 functional) or the linear augmented cylindrical waves density functional theory method. In addition to single-walled NTs, we have investigated a number of achiral double-walled (m, m)@(n, n) and (m, 0)@(n, 0) as well as triple-walled (l, l)@(m, m)@(n, n) and (l, 0)@(m, 0)@(n, 0) nanotubes. All multiwalled nanotubes show a common dependence of their band gap on the diameter of the inner nanotube, independent of chirality index and number of walls. This behavior of WS2 NTs allows the exploitation of the entire range of the visible spectrum by suitably tuning the band gap.
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- Sergei Piskunov
- Institute
of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia, Kengaraga 8, LV-1063 Riga, Latvia
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- Institute
of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia, Kengaraga 8, LV-1063 Riga, Latvia
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- Institute
of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia, Kengaraga 8, LV-1063 Riga, Latvia
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- Institute
of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian
Academy of Science, Leninskii
prosp. 31, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Institute
of Chemistry, Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, 199034 Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- Theoretical
Chemistry Department, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätstr. 2, 45141 Essen, Germany
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- Theoretical
Chemistry Department, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätstr. 2, 45141 Essen, Germany
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Carrete J, Ngoc Tuoc V, Madsen GKH. Using nanotubes to study the phonon spectrum of two-dimensional materials. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:5215-5223. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cp00052f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We develop a method to characterize the phonon spectrum of 2D monolayers from IR and Raman measurements performed on nanotubes.
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- Jesús Carrete
- Institute of Materials Chemistry
- TU Wien
- A-1060 Vienna
- Austria
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- Institute of Engineering Physics
- Hanoi University of Science and Technology
- Vietnam
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Evarestov RA, Bandura AV. Infrared and Raman active vibrational modes in MoS
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‐based nanotubes: Symmetry analysis and first‐principles calculations. J Comput Chem 2018; 39:2163-2172. [DOI: 10.1002/jcc.25530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2018] [Revised: 06/24/2018] [Accepted: 06/26/2018] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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- Robert A. Evarestov
- Quantum Chemistry DepartmentSaint Petersburg State University 7/9 Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya, St. Petersburg 199034 Russian Federation
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- Quantum Chemistry DepartmentSaint Petersburg State University 7/9 Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya, St. Petersburg 199034 Russian Federation
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Bandura AV, Lukyanov SI, Evarestov RA. Temperature dependence of thermodynamic properties of MoS 2 monolayer and single-wall nanotubes: Application of the developed three-body force field. J Mol Graph Model 2018; 85:212-222. [PMID: 30227366 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2018.08.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2018] [Revised: 08/18/2018] [Accepted: 08/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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MoS2 nanostructures, especially mono-, multilayer nanothin films as well as single- and multiwall nanotubes are rather interesting popular objects in nanomaterials chemistry. The thermodynamic properties of inorganic nanotubes, and the temperature dependence of their properties can be efficiently investigated by first-principles and molecular mechanics methods in the framework of harmonic approximation. At the same time, only thin single-wall nanotubes are available for the first-principles calculations. The classical mechanics is suitable to simulate very large atomic systems and their phonon frequencies, but developing sufficiently accurate force field is rather tedious work. Herein, we report the force field fitted to the experimental and first-principles data on the structure of 2H- and 3RMoS2 polytypes of bulk crystal, structure of monolayer and several bilayers, vibrational frequencies of 2HMoS2 bulk and monolayer, relative energetic stability of polytypes experimental and first-principles data, elastic constants, strain energy of a (12, 12) MoS2 nanotube. The thermodynamic functions and their temperature dependence for the armchair and zigzag nanotubes are calculated within the formalism of molecular mechanics using elaborated interatomic potential. The results of molecular mechanics and first-principles method application to the thinnest nanotubes are compared.
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- Andrei V Bandura
- Quantum Chemistry Department, Saint Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation
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- Quantum Chemistry Department, Saint Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation.
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- Quantum Chemistry Department, Saint Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation
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Evarestov RA, Bandura AV, Porsev VV, Kovalenko AV. Phonon spectra, electronic, and thermodynamic properties of WS 2 nanotubes. J Comput Chem 2017; 38:2581-2593. [PMID: 28833274 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.24916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2017] [Revised: 07/31/2017] [Accepted: 08/03/2017] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Hybrid density functional theory calculations are performed for the first time on the phonon dispersion and thermodynamic properties of WS2 -based single-wall nanotubes. Symmetry analysis is presented for phonon modes in nanotubes using the standard (crystallographic) factorization for line groups. Symmetry and the number of infra-red and Raman active modes in achiral WS2 nanotubes are given for armchair and zigzag chiralities. It is demonstrated that a number of infrared and Raman active modes is independent on the nanotube diameter. The zone-folding approach is applied to find out an impact of curvature on electron and phonon band structure of nanotubes rolled up from the monolayer. Phonon frequencies obtained both for layers and nanotubes are used to compute the thermal contributions to their thermodynamic functions. The temperature dependences of energy, entropy, and heat capacity of nanotubes are estimated with respect to those of the monolayer. The role of phonons in the stability estimation of nanotubes is discussed based on Helmholtz free energy calculations. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Robert A Evarestov
- Quantum Chemistry Department, Saint Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya, St. Petersburg 199034, Russian Federation
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- Quantum Chemistry Department, Saint Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya, St. Petersburg 199034, Russian Federation
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- Quantum Chemistry Department, Saint Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya, St. Petersburg 199034, Russian Federation
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- Quantum Chemistry Department, Saint Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya, St. Petersburg 199034, Russian Federation
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