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Twisted 1T TaS 2 bilayers by lithiation exfoliation

Hui Li, Pan Liu, Qi Liu, Ruichun Luo, Chenguang Guo, Ziqian Wang, Pengfei Guan, Christopher Florencio Aleman, Fuqiang Huang, Mingwei Chen

Nanoscale· Volume 12· Issue 35
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Abstract

We report twisted 1T TaS2 bilayers synthesized by a lithiation exfoliation method. Atomic-scale observations reveal the existence of eight twist commensurate configurations from over 50 1T TaS2 bilayer samples in the twist angle range from 0° to 30° in which commensurate atomic configurations can be distinguished by scanning transmission electron microscopy. The limited number of twist angles, rather than random ones, indicates that there are energetically favorite twist angles in the naturally formed bilayers. Together with the interlayer distance measurements, the formation of the bilayer twist configurations is anticipated to be regulated by the stacking energy in the charge-density-wave system through interlayer van der Waals interactions. The findings of this work may pave a new way to fabricate twisted bilayer TMDs for exploring exotic properties from additional moiré periodicity.
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OpenAlex topics: 2D Materials and Applications · MXene and MAX Phase Materials · Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures

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Affiliations

State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites

School of Materials Science and Engineering

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Shanghai

China

Beijing Computational Science Research Center

Beijing 100084

State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure

Shanghai Institute of Ceramics

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Shanghai 200050

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore

USA

Funding

Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China · National Natural Science Foundation of China · Johns Hopkins University · National Science Foundation · Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning

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