Diatoms become silica scaffolds for growing molybdenum disulfide
Sheets of
molybdenum disulfide just a few atoms thick show promise as semiconductors and
light-emitting materials for electronic and optical devices. But there is no
easy, cheap process to make the nanometers-thin sheets. Now, researchers report
a one-step method that grows MoS2 nanosheets using the silica shells
of marine diatoms as a scaffold.