Molybdenum Disulfide-Black Phosphorus Hybrid Nanosheets as a Superior Catalyst for Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution.

Title Molybdenum Disulfide-Black Phosphorus Hybrid Nanosheets as a Superior Catalyst for Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution.
Authors R. He; J. Hua; A. Zhang; C. Wang; J. Peng; W. Chen; J. Zeng
Journal Nano Lett
DOI 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01334
Abstract

Engineering electronic properties is a promising way to design nonprecious-metal or earth-abundant catalysts toward hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Herein, we deposited catalytically active MoS2 flakes onto black phosphorus (BP) nanosheets to construct the MoS2-BP interfaces. In this case, electrons flew from BP to MoS2 in MoS2-BP nanosheets because of the higher Fermi level of BP than that of MoS2. MoS2-BP nanosheets exhibited remarkable HER performance with an overpotential of 85 mV at 10 mA cm(-2). Due to the electron donation from BP to MoS2, the exchange current density of MoS2-BP reached 0.66 mA cm(-2), which was 22 times higher than that of MoS2. In addition, both the consecutive cyclic voltammetry and potentiostatic tests revealed the outstanding electrocatalytic stability of MoS2-BP nanosheets. Our finding not only provides a superior HER catalyst, but also presents a straightforward strategy to design hybrid electrocatalysts.

Citation R. He; J. Hua; A. Zhang; C. Wang; J. Peng; W. Chen; J. Zeng.Molybdenum Disulfide-Black Phosphorus Hybrid Nanosheets as a Superior Catalyst for Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution.. Nano Lett. 2017. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01334

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