Nanoporous gold nanostructures : morphological design and their energy conversion applications by Yang, Zhe

“…In chapter 5, I directly synthesize NPG-molybdenum sulfide hybrid structure by exploiting the photothermal effect to significantly increase localized temperature to initiate reduction of molybdenum sulfide precursors. …”
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Synthesis of a catalyst for water splitting by Siow, Wern Chiet.

“…The molybdenum sulfide compound is synthesized and tested. …”
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Improvement of CZTS solar cell by hydrogen doping by Chua, Maynard Wen De

“…CZTS films were successfully fabricated on Molybdenum-coated glass by spin coating technique and subsequent annealing in sulphur atmosphere. …”
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Layered materials : electrochemical studies for sensing, energy applications and toxicity studies by Chia, Hui Ling

“…Additionally, vanadium-doped molybdenum dichalcogenides were explored for the hydrogen evolution reaction, the oxygen evolution reaction and oxygen reduction reaction and the effects of varying the stoichiometry of vanadium dopants in bulk molybdenum dichalcogenides on their electrocatalytic activities were also investigated. …”
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Tin oxide based dye sensitized solar cells by Teh, Jun Jie

“…With all the parameters such as Voc, Jsc and FF were all increased through simple doping of gallium and molybdenum, tin oxide has the utmost potential to be the alternative to TiO2 as mesoporous semiconducting material in photoanode.…”
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Machine learning driven synthesis of two-dimensional materials by Chia, Jia Jun

“…In this study, we aim to make use of machine learning, specifically the Decision Tree Learning approach to train on a set of data of Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2) obtained from Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) to predict the optimum conditions for the growth of such material. …”
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Optimization of a self-supported cobalt oxide-based catalyst pellets for methane cracking by Toh, Brandon Teng Cong

“…It was found that cobalt doped with chromium catalysts are more stable chemically than cobalt doped with nickel, iron and molybdenum catalysts. They have different catalytic properties under different dwelling time. …”
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Polyoxometalates crystal growth, crystal structure, characterization and photocatalytic activities by Ren, Jie

“…Experiments also showed that under different amount of precursor added for reaction, the number of Vanadium replacement of Molybdenum is one, two, and three respectively comparing with the simplest homo-POM H3PMo12O40. …”
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Modelling the electrical characteristics of SiNWs/organic solar cells by Tay, Chiu Kee

“…Hence the motivation of this project is to identify the optical and electrical characteristic of Si/TMO solar cell, which uses molybdenum oxide (MoOx), as the selective carrier contact material. …”
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Preparation of MoS2-polyvinylpyrrolidone nanocomposites for flexible nonvolatile rewritable memory devices with reduced graphene oxide electrodes by Liu, Juqing, Zeng, Zhiyuan, Cao, Xiehong, Lu, Gang, Wang, Lianhui, Fan, Qu-Li, Huang, Wei, Zhang, Hua

“…A facile method for exfoliation and dispersion of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) with the aid of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) is proposed. …”
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Mixed-addenda polyoxometalates for enhanced electrochemical water oxidation by Ong, Boon Chong, Lim, Teik-Thye, Dong, Zhili

“…The presence of both tungsten and molybdenum as addenda atoms in POMs have tuned their properties and a variety of mixed-addenda POMs can be fabricated through precise control on the synthesis condition to better facilitate a specific application.…”
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Spontaneous charge transfer doping of transition metal dichalcogenides via ruthenium(III) chloride by Yeo, Think-E

“…Our findings revealed that hole doping in TMDs led to the formation of trions under photoexcitation, as evident from the trion response detected in the reflection contrast spectroscopy performed on molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2). However, no trion response was detected in tungsten diselenide (WSe2), contrary to theoretical predictions. …”
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Design, fabrication and characterization of integrated electronic devices based on wafer-scale 2D materials by Zhao, Guangchao

“…Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have received great attention since the discovery of the first two dimensional (2D) material (graphene) in 2004. Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has topped the research subjects due to its excellent electrical and optical properties such as high mobility, high thermal stability, and a moderate band gap around 1.8 eV for monolayer. …”
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Heterogeneous nucleation of polyethylene crystals on binary hexagonal nanoplatelets by Volchko, Nathan W., Rutledge, Gregory C.

“…In this work, crystal nucleation of a polyethylene oligomer, n-pentacontane, on three graphene-like substrates, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), and tungsten disulfide (WS2), was simulated, and the thermodynamic efficiencies of these substrates as nucleating agents were determined. …”
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Spray pyrolysis of CuIn(S,Se)2 solar cells with 5.9% efficiency : a method to prevent Mo oxidation in ambient atmosphere by Ho, John C. W., Zhang, Tianliang, Lee, Kian Keat, Wong, Lydia H., Tok, Alfred Iing Yoong, Batabyal, Sudip Kumar

“…Direct spray pyrolysis to form CuInS2 (CIS) on molybdenum substrate in ambient environment has been a challenge because of the ease of Mo oxidation at low temperatures. …”
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Adventures in low-valent germanium chemistry by Mangan, R

“…</p> <p>In Chapter 5, the synthesis of compounds featuring boryl-substituted germanium-transition metal bonds</p> is investigated, and the first examples of such compounds for the cases of molybdenum, cobalt and iron are reported. <p>In Chapter 6, conclusions are drawn from the work of this thesis, and suggestions for future work are made. …”

Tribological performance and mechanism of graphite, hBN and MoS2 as nano-additives in palm kernel oil-based lubricants: a comparative study by Azman, Nurul Farhanah, Samion, Syahrullail, Paiman, Zulhanafi, Abdul Hamid, Mohd. Kameil

“…In order to gain further insights into the exquisite nano-additive properties of layered nanoparticles, this research was conducted to explore the tribological performance of palm kernel oil-based lubricants combined with three different layered nanoparticles, namely graphite, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), and molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), using a four-ball tribotester. …”

Multi-metal oxide catalyst for electrochemical water oxidation by Phang, Yi Fei

“…The optimal catalytic activity of NiCo2O4 is achieved through the variation of synthetic parameters. Afterwards, molybdenum (Mo) dopant is successfully incorporated into the crystal lattice of spinel oxide, NiCo2O4. …”
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Graphene quantum dot-mediated atom-layer semiconductor electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution by Hu, Bingjie, Huang, Kai, Tang, Bijun, Lei, Zhendong, Wang, Zeming, Guo, Huazhang, Lian, Cheng, Liu, Zheng, Wang, Liang

“…The hydrogen evolution reaction performance of semiconducting 2H-phase molybdenum disulfide (2H-MoS2) presents a significant hurdle in realizing its full potential applications. …”
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Metal sulfides for electrochemical energy storage and conversion by Wang, Jin

“…The emerging two-dimensional (2D) molybdenum sulfide (MoS2) has shown vast potential for renewable energy storage and conversion applications, due to its intriguing physicochemical properties. …”
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