Exfoliation in a low boiling point solvent and electrochemical applications of MoO₃

• Matangi Sricharan,
• Bikesh Gupta,
• Sreejesh Moolayadukkam and
• H. S. S. Ramakrishna Matte

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 662–670, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.52

• mV·s−1. Keywords: 2-butanone; liquid-phase exfoliation; low-boiling point solvent; molybdenum trioxide (MoO3); supercapacitors; Introduction The advent of graphene has opened a new area of research in the field of two-dimensional materials [1]. The extraordinary properties of graphene have led

• distorted edge- and corner-sharing MoO6 octahedra. The layers are linked through weak out-of-plane van der Waals interactions. For exfoliation of MoO3, 2-butanone, a low boiling point solvent, was chosen the HSP values of which match well with those of MoO3 (Supporting Information File 1, Table S1). To

• boiling point solvent 2-butanone using probe sonication, resulted in a concentration of 0.57 mg·mL−1 and a yield of 5.7%, which are the highest values reported to date. Additionally, the MoO3 dispersions in 2-butanone do not undergo any chemical transformation when exposed to sunlight. Composites of the