“…Among van der Waals layered materials, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have recently gained attention from the scientific community for their peculiar optoelectronic characteristics [1][2][3][4][5]. Indeed, TMDs exhibit a unique combination of atomic-scale thickness, direct bandgap, strong spin-orbit coupling and favorable electronic and mechanical properties [6][7][8][9], which make them interesting for fundamental studies as well as for applications in energy harvesting [10,11], optoelectronics [12][13][14][15][16][17], spintronics [18], data storage [19,20], synaptic devices [21,22], flexible devices [23][24][25][26][27], etcetera.…”