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Molybdenum and tungsten disulfides presented in nanoscaled form with atomically resolved structures recently have become very popular materials to demonstrate highly productive photocatalytic performance. As the introduction of specific defects can positively influence their specific characteristics and features, such as, for example, increasing the concentration and mobility of available electrons thereby enhancing their transportation characteristics or exposing metallic edges sites that are determined to be extremely attractive sites for adsorption of molecules, the demonstrated efficiency can be extended even further. Yet, specific contradiction and uncertainties toward successful realization of this strategy exist which cannot be ignored and thus should be properly addressed. Following it, the goal of this chapter is to provide systematic and deep understanding regarding the application of defects engineering to advance various features of these materials accompanied by detailed and critical evaluation of recent trends, present achievements, and conflicting results.
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Gurylev, V. (2021). Case Study IV: Defect Engineering of MoS2 and WS2. In: Nanostructured Photocatalyst via Defect Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81911-8_8
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