Preparation of Liquid-exfoliated Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanosheets with Controlled Size and Thickness: A State of the Art ProtocolClaudia Backes 1, Damien Hanlon 2, Beata M. Szydlowska 2, Andrew Harvey 2, Ronan J. Smith 2, Thomas M. Higgins 1, Jonathan N. Coleman 2
1Chair of Applied Physical Chemistry, Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, 2School of Physics and CRANN, Trinity College Dublin
A protocol for the liquid exfoliation of layered materials to nanosheets, their size selection and size measurement by microscopic and spectroscopic techniques is presented.