[1] T J Trentler, K M Hickman, S C Goel et al. Solution-liquid-solid growth of crystalline III-V semiconductors: an analogy to vapor-liquid-solid growth. Science, 270, 1791(1995).

[2] R Yan, D Gargas, P Yang. Nanowire photonics. Nat Photon, 3, 569(2009).

[3] L X Zheng, M J O'Connell, S K Doorn et al. Ultralong single-wall carbon nanotubes. Nat Mater, 3, 673(2004).

[4] S Lei, L Ge, S Najmaei et al. Evolution of the electronic band structure and efficient photo-detection in atomic layers of InSe. Acs Nano, 8, 1263(2014).

[5] S M Poh, S J R Tan, X Zhao et al. Large area synthesis of 1D-MoSe₂ using molecular beam epitaxy. Adv Mater, 29, 1605641(2017).

[6] R Qi, S Wang, M Wang et al. Towards well-defined MoS₂ nanoribbons on a large scale. Chem Commun, 53, 9757(2017).

[7] S Li, Y C Lin, W Zhao et al. Vapour-liquid-solid growth of monolayer MoS₂ nanoribbons. Nat Mater, 17, 535(2018).

[8] W Huang, X Wang, X Ji et al. In-situ fabrication of Mo₆S₆-nanowire-terminated edges in monolayer molybdenum disulfide. Nano Res, 11, 5849(2018).

[9] Y Zhou, J Dong, H Li et al. Electronic transport properties of in-plane heterostructures constructed by MoS₂ and WS₂ nanoribbons. RSC Adv, 5, 66852(2015).

[10] W Zhou, G Yu, A N Rudenko et al. Tunable half-metallicity and edge magnetism of H-saturated InSe nanoribbons. Phys Rev Mater, 2, 114001(2018).

[11] K X Chen, Z Y Luo, D C Mo et al. WSe₂ nanoribbons: new high-performance thermoelectric materials. Phys Chem Chem Phys, 18, 16337(2016).

[12] M Wu, J J Shi, M Zhang et al. Modulation of electronic and magnetic properties in InSe nanoribbons: edge effect. Nanotechnology, 29, 205708(2018).

[13] G Z Magda, X Jin, I Hagymasi et al. Room-temperature magnetic order on zigzag edges of narrow graphene nanoribbons. Nature, 514, 608(2014).

[14] J J Wang, F F Cao, L Jiang et al. High performance photodetectors of individual InSe single crystalline nanowire. J Am Chem Soc, 131, 15602(2009).

[15] Y Yu, G Wang, Y Tan et al. Phase-controlled growth of one-dimensional Mo₆Te₆ nanowires and two-dimensional MoTe₂ ultrathin films heterostructures. Nano Lett, 18, 675(2018).

[16] J Zhang, Y Wei, F Yao et al. SWCNT-MoS₂-SWCNT vertical point heterostructures. Adv Mater, 29, 1604469(2017).

[17] D Jariwala, V K Sangwan, C C Wu et al. Gate-tunable carbon nanotube-MoS₂ heterojunction p-n diode. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 110, 18076(2013).

[18] Y Liu, X He, D Hanlon et al. Liquid phase exfoliated MoS₂ nanosheets percolated with carbon nanotubes for high volumetric/areal capacity sodium-ion batteries. Acs Nano, 10, 8821(2016).

[19] H Huang, W Huang, Z Yang et al. Strongly coupled MoS₂ nanoflake-carbon nanotube nanocomposite as an excellent electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction. J Mater Chem A, 5, 1558(2017).

[20] Z Zhang, P Chen, X Duan et al. Robust epitaxial growth of two-dimensional heterostructures, multiheterostructures, and superlattices. Science, 357, 788(2017).

[21] X Duan, C Wang, J C Shaw et al. Lateral epitaxial growth of two-dimensional layered semiconductor heterojunctions. Nat Nanotechnol, 9, 1024(2014).

[22] A Berkdemir, H R Gutierrez, A R Botello-Mendez et al. Identification of individual and few layers of WS₂ using Raman Spectroscopy. Sci Rep, 3, 1755(2013).

[23] A M van der Zande, P Y Huang, D A Chenet et al. Grains and grain boundaries in highly crystalline monolayer molybdenum disulphide. Nat Mater, 12, 554(2013).