Rhenium-Doped and Stabilized MoS2 Atomic Layers with Basal-Plane Catalytic Activity

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Veröffentlicht in:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 30(2018), 51 vom: 30. Dez., Seite e1803477
1. Verfasser: Yang, Shi-Ze (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Gong, Yongji, Manchanda, Priyanka, Zhang, Yu-Yang, Ye, Gonglan, Chen, Shuangming, Song, Li, Pantelides, Sokrates T, Ajayan, Pulickel M, Chisholm, Matthew F, Zhou, Wu
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2018
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Schlagworte:Journal Article density functional theory electrocatalysis hydrogen evolution reaction scanning transmission electron microscopy transition metal dichalcogenides
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Zusammenfassung:© 2018 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
The development of stable and efficient hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalysts is essential for the production of hydrogen as a clean energy resource. A combination of experiment and theory demonstrates that the normally inert basal planes of 2D layers of MoS2 can be made highly catalytically active for the HER when alloyed with rhenium (Re). The presence of Re at the ≈50% level converts the material to a stable distorted tetragonal (DT) structure that shows enhanced HER activity as compared to most of the MoS2 -based catalysts reported in the literature. More importantly, this new alloy catalyst shows much better stability over time and cycling than lithiated 1T-MoS2 . Density functional theory calculations find that the role of Re is only to stabilize the DT structure, while catalysis occurs primarily in local Mo-rich DT configurations, where the HER catalytic activity is very close to that in Pt. The study provides a new strategy to improve the overall HER performance of MoS2 -based materials via chemical doping
Beschreibung:Date Completed 17.12.2018
Date Revised 01.10.2020
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1521-4095
DOI:10.1002/adma.201803477