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Tuning the photoluminescence of MoS2/TiO2 by molecular self-assembly films

  • Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

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    Hechenyu Zha received her master’s degree from the School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, under the supervision of Prof. Xiang Shao. Her research mainly focused on the surface modification of metal oxide surface and its combination with two-dimensional materials

    Xiang Shao received his Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from Peking University. He is currently a Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests cover the surface chemistry of metal alloys, metal oxides and their combinations with two-dimensional materials

  • Corresponding author: E-mail: shaox@ustc.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 02 May 2023
  • Accepted Date: 22 May 2023
    • Available Online: 06 June 2023
    Abstract

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    Self-assembly films have demonstrated an efficient method to functionalize the surfaces of variously different materials. In this work, we preliminarily explored the modification effect of 10,12-pentacosadiynoic acid (PCDA) on the optical properties of monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) grown on a rutile titanium dioxide (r-TiO2) (110) single crystal surface. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) characterizations directly revealed that the PCDA molecules self-assemble into the same lamella structure as on pure MoS2, which can be further polymerized into conductive polydiacetylene (PDA) chains under ultraviolet light (UV) irradiation. Detailed photoluminescence (PL) measurements observed clearly increased luminescence of negative trions (A−) yet decreased total intensities for MoS2 upon adding the PCDA assembly, which is further enhanced after stimulating its polymerization. These results indicate that the PCDA assembly and its polymerization have different electron donability to MoS2, which hence provides a deepened understanding of the interfacial interactions within a multicomponent system. Our work also demonstrates the self-assembly of films as a versatile strategy to tune the electronic/optical properties of hybridized two-dimensional materials.

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    Self-assembly films of PCDA and its in situ photopolymerization donate different amount of electrons to the MoS2/TiO2 surface and thus modulate the photoluminescence of the latter.

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    Self-assembly films have demonstrated an efficient method to functionalize the surfaces of variously different materials. In this work, we preliminarily explored the modification effect of 10,12-pentacosadiynoic acid (PCDA) on the optical properties of monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) grown on a rutile titanium dioxide (r-TiO2) (110) single crystal surface. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) characterizations directly revealed that the PCDA molecules self-assemble into the same lamella structure as on pure MoS2, which can be further polymerized into conductive polydiacetylene (PDA) chains under ultraviolet light (UV) irradiation. Detailed photoluminescence (PL) measurements observed clearly increased luminescence of negative trions (A−) yet decreased total intensities for MoS2 upon adding the PCDA assembly, which is further enhanced after stimulating its polymerization. These results indicate that the PCDA assembly and its polymerization have different electron donability to MoS2, which hence provides a deepened understanding of the interfacial interactions within a multicomponent system. Our work also demonstrates the self-assembly of films as a versatile strategy to tune the electronic/optical properties of hybridized two-dimensional materials.

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    • Monolayer MoS2 was grown on rutile TiO2(110) single crystal through an ambient CVD method.
    • PCDA assembles into lamellae structure on the MoS2/TiO2 surface and polymerizes in situ under the UV irradiation.
    • The assembled and the further polymerized PCDA molecules donate electrons to the MoS2/TiO2 and tune the photoluminescence of the latter.

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    Figure  1.  (a) Molecular structure of 10,12-pentacosadiynoic acid. (b, c) The standing-up and flat-lying assembly structures of PCDA on oxide and other inert substrates, respectively. The rectangle in (c) marks the unit cell.

    Figure  2.  Characterization of the as-prepared MoS2/TiO2 substrate. (a) AFM image of an atomically flat TiO2(110) surface. The inset in the upper right corner shows the profile taken along the black arrow. (b) AFM image of a triangular MoS2 flake on the MoS2/TiO2 surface. The upper right inset shows the height profile measured across the MoS2 boundary along the black arrow. (c) Typical SEM image of the as-prepared MoS2/TiO2 surface. (d) Raman spectrum of MoS2 transferred from TiO2 onto a SiO2/Si substrate. (e, f) High-resolution XPS spectra of Mo 3d and S 2p on MoS2/TiO2.

    Figure  3.  (a) AFM and (b) the corresponding STM characterizations of the self-assembly film of PCDA formed on MoS2. Four PCDA molecular models are overlapped over the STM image. Note that although the film coverage slightly surpasses that of the monolayer, STM can only observe the structure of the bottom layer. (c, d) are the section profiles taken along the black and blue lines, respectively. The measured distances correspond to ten and double times the periodicities in these directions.

    Figure  4.  AFM characterization of the assembly structure of PCDA on the MoS2/TiO2 surface. (a) Large-area topographic image showing the PCDA aggregates formed on the MoS2/TiO2 surface. (b) Zoomed-in topographic image focusing on the MoS2/TiO2 region covered by PCDA film. (c) Zoomed-in phase image showing the resolved assembly structure of PCDA on MoS2/TiO2. (d) Section profile taken along the white arrow in (c), which measures the periodicity of the PCDA assembly as ~6.9 nm.

    Figure  5.  (a) AFM topography and (b) the corresponding phase images of the PCDA/MoS2/TiO2 surface after UV irradiation. The black and red ovals highlight the polymerized and unreacted PCDA assembly, respectively. (c) Section profiles taken along the black and red arrows in (a), showing the height difference between the reacted and unreacted PCDA film. Inserted are the simple schematics for the flat lying PCDA (lower) and the PDA polymer (upper), respectively.

    Figure  6.  PL spectra measured on the different samples: (a) bare MoS2/TiO2, (b) PCDA/MoS2/TiO2 and (c) PCDA/MoS2/TiO2 structure after UV irradiation. All the spectra are properly fit with two peaks, i.e., A0 and A−. (d) Plot of the PL intensities and the ${I_{{{\rm{A}}^ - }}}/{I_{{{\rm{A}}^0}}} $ ratios versus different samples.

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    Liu E, Fu Y, Wang Y, et al. Integrated digital inverters based on two-dimensional anisotropic ReS2 field-effect transistors. Nat. Commun., 2015, 6: 6991. doi: 10.1038/ncomms7991
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