2023/02/23 by Hanlin Wu, Sheng Li, Wu, Hanlin +5
Materials Science · #2D Materials and Applications #FOS: Physical sciences #Iron-based superconductors research #MXene and MAX Phase Materials #Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2302.11879
openalex publication_date 2023/02/23 · openalex created_date 2023/02/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
In this work, we report multiple intercalation stages and universal Tc enhancement of superconductivity in 1T-SnSe2 through Li and organic molecules cointercalation. We observe significantly increased lattice parameters up to 40 Å and dramatically enlarged interlayer distance up to ~11Å in Li and N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) cointercalated SnSe2. Well-separated cointercalation stages with different stacking patterns have been discovered by carefully controlled reaction time and concentration of solutions. These cointercalation stages are superconductors showing different superconducting signals. In addition, Li and various organic species such as Acetone, Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and Tetrahydrofuran (THF) have been cointercalated into SnSe2 crystals, all of which show enhanced superconducting Tc compared to solely Li intercalated SnSe2. Our findings may provide more insight to effectively tune electronic structure of the lamellar structure through organic molecules co-regulation, and open a new strategy to engineer the physical properties of these layered materials by controlling their different intercalation stages.