Abstract
Molybdenum disulfide quantum dots (MoS2 QDs) are a unique class of zero-dimensional (0D) van der Waals nanostructures. MoS2 QDs have attracted significant attention due to their unique optical, electronic, chemical, and biological properties due to the presence of edge states of these van der Waals QDs for various chemical functionalization. Their novel properties have enabled applications in many fields, including advanced electronics, electrocatalysis, and biomedicine. In this review, the various synthesis techniques, the novel properties, and the wide applications of MoS2 quantum dots are discussed in detail.
Highlights
Since the isolation of monolayered graphene from graphite in 2004, the field of twodimensional (2D) van der Waals materials has seen rapid development
Since the successful synthesis in 2014, MoS2 quantum dots (QDs) have gained a lot of attention for their photochemical properties, photostability, and biocompatibility
All the publications so far have shown that the synthetic route is simple and cost-efficient; more creativity is needed to scale-up the synthesis techniques to a much larger scale for real-world application of MoS2 QDs
Summary
Since the isolation of monolayered graphene from graphite in 2004, the field of twodimensional (2D) van der Waals materials has seen rapid development. The lack of a fundamental band gap in graphene has prevented the use of graphene in digital electronics This has led researchers to explore van der Waals 2D materials beyond graphene, including hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). As the planar dimension continues to reduce to several nanometers, the strong quantum confinement effect enhances the characteristic photoluminescence (PL) of TMDCs, granting them high utility in many fields. These spatially confined zero-dimensional (0D) TMDCs, known as quantum dots (QDs), have started to gain attention for applications. With the only dip occurring during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
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