Tunable Nanostructuring for van der Waals Materials
van der Waals (vdW) materials are becoming increasingly popular in scientific and industrial applications because of their unique mixture of record electronic, optical, and mechanical properties. However, nanostructuring of vdW materials is still in its infancy and strongly depends on the specific vdW crystal. As a result, the universal self-assembled technology of vdW materials nanostructuring opens vast technological prospects. This work demonstrates an express and universal synthesis method of vdW nanoparticles with well-defined geometry using femtosecond laser ablation and fragmentation. The disarming simplicity of the technique allows us to create nanoparticles from over 50 vdW precursor materials, covering transition metal chalcogenides, MXenes, and other vdW materials. Obtained nanoparticles manifest perfectly defined crystalline structures and diverse shapes, from nanospheres to nanocubes and nanotetrahedrons. Thus, our approach illustrates a generalizable route to vdW nanostructuring with broad tunability in size, shape, and material composition, adaptable to specific application requirements.
Authors
- Andrei V. Kabashin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1549-7198)
- Boris N. Chichkov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8129-7373)
- Daria A. Panova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0137-7339)
- Gleb V. Tikhonowski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4998-1631)
- Nikita Orekhov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4951-382X)
- Dmitry Dyubo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6033-9773)
- Ivan A. Kruglov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1786-9282)
- Fedor Lipilin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4649-032X)
- Aleksey V. Arsenin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7506-4389)
- Anton A. Popov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8902-0371)
- А. А. Миннеханов (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7685-8463)
- Alexander V. Syuy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2373-8812)
- Arslan Mazitov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6549-7324)
- Daniil I. Tselikov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6454-9353)
- Kostya S. Novoselov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4972-5371)
- Georgy A. Ermolaev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0895-818X)
- Zdeněk Sofer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1391-4448)
- Ivan S. Kazantsev
- Sergey Smirnov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8887-1745)
- Valentyn S. Volkov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8994-7812)
- Umer Ahsan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6941-2083)
- Gleb I. Tselikov
Institutions
- Leibniz University Hannover (DE)
- National University of Singapore (SG)
- King's College London (GB)
- Aix-Marseille Université (FR)
- Henry Royce Institute (GB)
- Canadian Nautical Research Society (CA)
- University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (CZ)
Publication Details
- Journal
- ACS Nano
- Published
- 2025-06-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c00546
- Citations
- 9
- Primary Topic
- MXene and MAX Phase Materials
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.66
Funders
- Royal Society
- National Research Foundation Singapore
- Ministry of Education - Singapore
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche
- Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy
- European Regional Development Fund