ABSTRACT
Chalcogenide-based 2D nanomaterials have drawn excessive consideration as a result of their fascinating electronic/optical properties. These materials exhibit enormous potential for their direct use in the manufacturing of optoelectronic devices, especially solar cells. The good photosensitivity of chalcogenide-based 2D nanomaterials and convenient as well as cost-effective routes to achieve them in the form of thin film are major reasons that have attracted the technologists working in the field of synthesis and technologies of future-generation solar cells. Transition-metal dichalcogenides have also drawn attention of technologists for their utilization in photovoltaic devices. These materials are frequently referred to as TMDCs. The chapter starts with a painstaking literature survey on chalcogenide-based 2D nanomaterials. This chapter deals with different technologies and approaches that have been employed in the last two decades for synthesizing chalcogenide-based 2D nanomaterials. Further, the chapter sheds the light on various aspects of chalcogenide-based 2D nanomaterials that are feasibily employed to manufacture novel and solar cells having reasonable efficiency.
