“…MoS 2 is the preferred and most applied TMDC for these sensors, but wide applications in this field have been also demonstrated for MoSe 2 . Except in a few cases [ 49 , 61 , 75 , 93 ], Mo-based sensors rely on composite materials where the Mo-dichalcogenides are activated mainly with noble metals [ 60 , 83 , 84 , 91 , 97 , 102 , 114 , 115 , 116 ] and carbon nanostructures [ 77 , 78 , 84 , 96 , 97 ], like graphene or graphene oxide. In particular, AuNPs was the most considered noble metal additive, because of the high affinity of gold for the sulfur atom and the other chalcogenide elements, which allows the controlled synthesis of AuNPs on TMDC nanosheets.…”