title: Solvo-thermal microwave-powered two-dimensional material exfoliation.
abstract: We report our discovery of a universal, ultrafast, green, solvo-thermal technology for producing excellent quality, large-sized, few-layered nanosheets from well-known two-dimensional materials (TDMs) such as hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), graphite, and MoS2. Our theory confirms the basis of this novel technique for exfoliation of high-quality, layered TDMs by unraveling a hitherto unknown role of the solvent.
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111, USA. binghu@umd.edu.
authors.forename: Zhen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111, USA. binghu@umd.edu.
authors.forename: Yanbin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111, USA. binghu@umd.edu.
authors.forename: Zhengyang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111, USA. binghu@umd.edu.
authors.forename: Yonggang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111, USA. binghu@umd.edu.
authors.forename: Jiaqi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111, USA. sidd@umd.edu.
authors.forename: Siddhartha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Das
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111, USA. binghu@umd.edu.
authors.forename: Liangbing
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authors.lastname: Hu