Issue 23, 2019

Tuning the liquid-phase exfoliation of arsenic nanosheets by interaction with various solvents

Abstract

The interaction between monolayered arsenene and fourteen kinds of solvents is found to be correlated with the extent of charge transfer from arsenene to the solvents by density functional theory calculations. Among them, three kinds of aprotic solvents (cyclohexane, tetrahydrofuran and chloroform), representing different adsorbability with arsenene, were selected to exfoliate bulk arsenic crystals into nanosheets in experiments. The as-prepared concentrations of the three dispersions vary monotonically with the calculated adsorption energies and charge transfer per contact area. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) characterization and size distribution analyses manifested that the lateral size distributions of the exfoliated arsenic nanosheets ranged from 100 nm to 1050 nm. This strategy shows the potential usage in liquid-phase exfoliation of multi-layered materials due to the interaction effects between the solvents and the surface of the materials.

Graphical abstract: Tuning the liquid-phase exfoliation of arsenic nanosheets by interaction with various solvents

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
16 Apr 2019
Accepted
17 May 2019
First published
17 May 2019

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019,21, 12087-12090

Tuning the liquid-phase exfoliation of arsenic nanosheets by interaction with various solvents

Z. Qi, Y. Hu, Z. Jin and J. Ma, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 12087 DOI: 10.1039/C9CP01052A

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