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Anomalous enhancement oxidation of few-layer MoS2 and MoS2/h-BN heterostructure

Siming Ren1( )Yanbin Shi1Chaozhi Zhang1Mingjun Cui2Jibin Pu1( )
Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Related Technologies, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Protective Technologies, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China
Key Laboratory of Impact and Safety Engineering, Ministry of Education of China, School of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
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The construction of tensile strain in few-layer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and MoS2/hexagonal boron nitride (MoS2/h-BN) heterostructure films enhances their oxidation at elevated temperature.

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Because of profound applications of two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and its heterostructures in electronics, its thermal stability has been spurred substantial interest. We employ a precision muffle furnace at a series of increasing temperatures up to 340 °C to study the oxidation behavior of continuous MoS2 films by either directly growing mono- and few-layer MoS2 on SiO2/Si substrate, or by mechanically transferring monolayer MoS2 or hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) onto monolayer MoS2 substrate. Results show that monolayer MoS2 can withstand high temperature at 340 °C with less oxidation while the few-layer MoS2 films are completely oxidized just at 280 °C, resulting from the growth-induced tensile strain in few-layer MoS2. When the tensile strain of films is released by transfer method, the stacked few-layer MoS2 films exhibit superior thermal stability and typical layer-by-layer oxidation behavior at similarly high temperature. Counterintuitively, for the MoS2/h-BN heterostructure, the h-BN film itself stacked on top is not damaged and forms many bubbles at 340 °C, whereas the underlying monolayer MoS2 film is oxidized completely. By comprehensively using various experimental characterization and molecular dynamics calculations, such anomalous oxidation behavior of MoS2/h-BN heterostructure is mainly due to the increased tensile strain in MoS2 film at elevated temperature.

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Cite this article:
Ren S, Shi Y, Zhang C, et al. Anomalous enhancement oxidation of few-layer MoS2 and MoS2/h-BN heterostructure. Nano Research, 2022, 15(8): 7081-7090. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4384-5
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Received: 20 January 2022
Revised: 15 March 2022
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Published: 23 May 2022
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