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Electric field enhanced adsorption and diffusion of adatoms in MoS2 monolayer

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MATERIALS CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Volume 183, Issue -, Pages 392-397

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2016.08.043

Keywords

Monolayers; ab initio calculations; Diffusion; Adsorption

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [11474047]
  2. UoA from Northumbria University at Newcastle
  3. CAPEX from Northumbria University at Newcastle
  4. Royal academy of Engineering UK-Research Exchange with China
  5. Royal academy of Engineering UK-Research Exchange with India

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A new phenomenon, electric field enhanced adsorption and diffusion of lithium, magnesium and aluminum ions in a MoS2 monolayer, was investigated using density functional theory in this study. With the electric field increased from 0 to 0.8 V/angstrom, the adsorption energies of the Li, Mg and Al atoms in the MoS2 monolayer were decreased from -2.01 to -2.49 eV, from -0.80 to -1.28 eV, and -2.71 to -3.01 eV, respectively. The corresponding diffusion barriers were simultaneously decreased from 0.23 to 0.08 eV, from 0.15 to 0.10 eV, and 0.24 to 0.21 eV for the Li, Mg and Al ions, respectively. We concluded that the external electric field can increase the charging speed of rechargeable ion batteries based on the MoS2 anode materials. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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