Affiliation:
1. School of Metallurgy Engineering National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Functional Materials Processing Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology Xi'an 710055 China
2. Research School of Chemistry The Australian National University Canberra ACT 2601 Australia
Abstract
Abstract2D molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is developed as a potential alternative non‐precious metal electrocatalyst for energy conversion. It is well known that 2D MoS2 has three main phases 2H, 1T, and 1T′. However, the most stable 2H‐phase shows poor electrocatalysis in its basal plane, compared with its edge sites. In this work, a facile one‐step hydrothermal‐driven in situ porousizing of MoS2 into self‐supporting nano islands to maximally expose the edges of MoS2 grains for efficient utilization of the active stable sites at the edges of MoS2 is reported. The results show that such active, aggregation‐free nano islands greatly enhance MoS2's hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) bifunctional electrocatalytic activities. At a low overpotential of 248 and 300 mV, the porous MoS2 nano islands can generate a current density of 10 mA cm−2 in HER and OER, which is much better than typical nanosheet morphology. Surprisingly, the porous MoS2 nano islands even exhibit better performance than the current commercial RuO2 catalyst in OER. This discovery will be another effective strategy to promote robust 2H‐phase, instead of 1T/1T′‐phase, MoS2 to achieve efficient endurable bifunctional HER/OER, which is expected to further replace precious metal catalysts in industry.
Funder
Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
Subject
Biomaterials,Biotechnology,General Materials Science,General Chemistry
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