Bottom-up (aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition, AACVD) and top-down (liquid phase exfoliation, LPE) processing methodologies are used in tandem to produce colloids of few-layer thick rhenium disulfide (ReS2) in N-methyl pyrrolidone.
Controlled synthesis of group VB transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers and few-layers with defined coordination and stacking is the key to the property investigation and device applications.