MoS2Microtubes: An Electron Microscopy Study

M. Remškar, Z. Škraba, F. Cléton, R. Sanjinés and F. Lévy
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M. Remškar: J. Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1111 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Z. Škraba: J. Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1111 Ljubljana, Slovenia
F. Cléton: Centre interdépartemental de microscopie électronique, Ecole Polytechnique, Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
R. Sanjinés: Institut de physique appliquée, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
F. Lévy: Institut de physique appliquée, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Surface Review and Letters (SRL), 1998, vol. 05, issue 01, 423-426

Abstract: Recently it was found that instability of thin weakly bondedMoS2sheets against folding can lead to a growth of hollowed microtubes with several mm lengths, 1–20 μm diameter and less than 0.1 μm wall thickness.1Bent sheets can directly roll up into the tube or they can produce in their microfolds a turbulent gas flow of transported molecules which promotes a tubelike growth mode. These uncommon stable features of inorganic crystals reveal a great similarity to much smaller carbon fullerences and especially to inorganic (MoS2,WS2) nested fullereness-nanotubes.2Scanning electron microscopic studies of cylindrical microtubes and twisted microribbons are combined with high resolution electron microscopic observations of stacking faults.

Date: 1998
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