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SUBMITTER: Das SR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7729869 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20201210 1
Triangular growth patterns of pristine two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are ubiquitous in experiments. Here, we use first-principles calculations to investigate the growth of triangular shaped oxide islands upon layer-by-layer controlled oxidation in monolayer and few-layer [Formula: see text] systems. Pristine 2D TMDs with a trigonal prismatic geometry prefer the triangular growth morphology due to structural stability arising from the edge chalcogen atoms along its ...[more]