Nanostructured molybdenum dichalcogenides: a review

With increasing interests in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), immense literature has come into existence covering broad range of preparation methods as well as applications in diverse fields. Often dichalcogenides include sulphides, selenides and tellurides, though, they differ in various ways depending upon their crystal strucutres, methods of synthesis and application requirements. But, each TMD is exceptional from the modern technological viewpoint. This review article focuses in detail about synthesis, properties and applications of molybdenum dichalcogenides [MoX2 (X=S, Se, Te)] because of the desired expectations of the scientific community for specific types of chalcogenides. The majority of researchers have emphasized their research work on nanocrystalline molybdenum disulphide, however, the present articles also discusses selenides and tellurides as they also exhibit significant attractions due to vast new avenues in advanced applications. Through this comprehensive review, we aim to bring a complete description of molybdenum dichalcogenides at one platform which will serve as important source of information for the large number of researchers in the field.