title: Ultrathin nanosheets of half-metallic monoclinic vanadium dioxide with a thermally induced phase transition.
abstract: Only the half of it: A modified intercalation-deintercalation strategy that takes advantage of the characteristic thermally induced phase transition of monoclinic VO2 has been developed for the preparation of ultrathin VO2 nanosheets. The resultant nanosheets exhibit half-metallic character and a temperature-dependent phase transition. The half-metallicity could lead to applications in spintronic nanodevices.
authors.affiliation: National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230029, PR China.
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Chong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Xiaodong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Qinghua
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Shiqiang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xie
keywords: half metallicity; nanosheets; phase transitions; vanadium dioxide