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In this paper, the magnetic and electrocatalytic properties of hydrothermally grown transition metal doped (10% of Co, Ni, Fe, and Mn) 2H-MoS2 nanocrystals (NCs) with a particle size 25-30 nm are reported. The pristine 2H-MoS2 NCs showed a mixture of canted anti-ferromagnetic and ferromagnetic behavior. While Co, Ni, and Fe doped MoS2 NCs revealed room temperature ferromagnetism, Mn doped MoS2 NCs showed room temperature paramagnetism, predominantly. The ground state of all the materials is found to be cantedantiferromagnetic phase. To study electrocatalytic performance for hydrogen evolution reaction, polarization curves were measured for undoped and the doped MoS2 NCs. At the overpotential of η = −300 mV, the current densities, listed from greatest to least, are FeMoS2, CoMoS2, MoS2, NiMoS2, and MnMoS2, and the order of catalytic activity found from Tafel slopes is CoMoS2 > MoS2 > NiMoS2 > FeMoS2 > MnMoS2. The increasing number of catalytically active sites in Co doped MoS2 NCs might be responsible for their superior electrocatalytic activity. The present results show that the magnetic order-disorder behavior and catalytic activity can be modulated by choosing the suitable dopants in NCs of 2D materials.

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In the current work, we have epitaxially integrated La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/SrRuO3 (LSMO/SRO) BLs with the technologically important substrate Si (100) using pulsed laser deposition. Interestingly, at 4 K, under the magnetic field sweep of ±1500 Oe, a complete vertical M-H loop shift is observed in the sample prepared with 180 nm SRO thickness, which is unusual. This vertical shift persists even up to a field sweep range of ±6000 Oe, at which point the shift disappears and a symmetrical hysteresis loop centered at the origin is observed. In contrast, at the same temperature, under the same field sweep range, we observe a normal M-H loop (no or little vertical shift) from the sample with 45 nm SRO thickness. In both the cases, the LSMO thickness was held constant at ∼100 nm. It appears that SRO moment is frozen in place in the latter case, providing a clear demonstration of the effect that biasing layer (SRO) thickness can have on the magnetic characteristics of bilayer films. We attribute this vertical shift to the strong interplay between the uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy and microscopic interface domain structure.

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