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The gold ticket to achiral WS2 nanotubes

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Multiwalled WS2 and WSe2 nanotubes with predominantly a single chiral angle are produced in a chemical vapour deposition reactor using gold nanoparticles as a catalyst. This strategy paves the way for the growth of transition metal dichalcogenide nanotubes with controllable structures for further exploring their physical properties and potential applications.

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Fig. 1: Schematic of the growth process of mostly achiral WS2 nanotubes.

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R.T. acknowledges the support of The Estate of Manfred Hecht and the Estate of Diane Recanati. We also acknowledge the Perlman Family Foundation, and the Kimmel Center for Nanoscale Science of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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  2. Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel

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Bar-Saden, M., Tenne, R. The gold ticket to achiral WS2 nanotubes. Nat. Mater. 23, 310–311 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01609-x

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