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Scaling-up phase selection

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A method to selectively grow pure metallic-phase monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides marks an important step towards industrially viable nano-(opto)electronic technologies based on two-dimensional materials and their hierarchical assemblies.

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Fig. 1: Chemical vapour deposition synthesis of 1T′ and 2H metallic phases of MoS2 monolayer.

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Mohite, A.D., Blancon, JC. Scaling-up phase selection. Nature Mater 17, 1058–1059 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-018-0226-y

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