Halide Perovskite Nanocrystal-Enabled Stabilization of Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanosheets.

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanosheets exfoliated in the liquid phase are of significant interest owing to their potential for scalable and flexible photoelectronic applications. Although various dispersants such as surfactants, oligomers, and polymers are used to obtain highly exfoliated TMD nanosheets, most of them are electrically insulating and need to be removed; otherwise, the photoelectric properties of the TMD nanosheets degrade. Here, inorganic halide perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) of CsPbX  (X = Cl, Br, or I) are presented as non-destructive dispersants capable of dispersing TMD nanosheets in the liquid phase and enhancing the photodetection properties of the nanosheets, thus eliminating the need to remove the dispersant. MoSe nanosheets dispersed in the liquid phase are adsorbed with CsPbCl  NCs. The CsPbCl nanocrystals on MoSe efficiently withdraw electrons from the nanosheets, and suppress the dark current of the MoSe nanosheets, leading to flexible near-infrared MoSe  photodetectors with a high ON/OFF photocurrent ratio and detectivity. Moreover, lanthanide ion-doped CsPbCl  NCs enhance the ON/OFF current ratio to >10 . Meanwhile, the dispersion stability of the MoSe  nanosheets exfoliated with the perovskite NCs is sufficiently high.