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Boosting hydrogen evolution on MoS2 via co-confining selenium in surface and cobalt in inner layer

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Zheng, Zhilong, Yu, Liang, Gao, Meng, Chen, Xiya, Zhou, Wu, Ma, Chao, Wu, Lihui, Zhu, Junfa, Meng, Xiangyu, Hu, Jingting, Tu, Yunchuan, Wu, Sisi, Mao, Jun, Tian, Zhongqun, Deng, Dehui·2020·Nature Communications
DOI 10.1038/s41467-020-17199-0
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The lack of highly efficient, inexpensive catalysts severely hinders large-scale application of electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) for producing hydrogen. MoS 2 as a low-cost candidate suffers from low catalytic performance. Herein, taking advantage of its tri-layer structure, we report a MoS 2 nanofoam catalyst co-confining selenium in surface and cobalt in inner layer, exhibiting an ultra-high large-current-density HER activity surpassing all previously reported heteroatom-doped MoS 2. At a large current density of 1000 mA cm−2, a much lower overpotential of 382 mV than that of 671 mV over commercial Pt/C catalyst is achieved and stably maintained for 360 hours without decay. First-principles calculations demonstrate that inner layer-confined cobalt atoms stimulate neighbouring sulfur atoms while surface-confined selenium atoms stabilize the structure, which cooperatively enable the massive generation of both in-plane and edge active sites with optimized hydrogen adsorption activity. This strategy provides a viable route for developing MoS 2-based catalysts for industrial HER applications.

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Authors
Zheng, Z., Yu, L., Gao, M., Chen, X., Zhou, W., Ma, C., Wu, L., Zhu, J., Meng, X., Hu, J., Tu, Y., Wu, S., Mao, J., Tian, Z., & Deng, D.
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Nature Communications
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2020-07-03
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11
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3315-3315
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2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1038/s41467-020-17199-0
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Zheng, Z., Yu, L., Gao, M., Chen, X., Zhou, W., Ma, C., Wu, L., Zhu, J., Meng, X., Hu, J., Tu, Y., Wu, S., Mao, J., Tian, Z., & Deng, D. (2020). Boosting hydrogen evolution on MoS2 via co-confining selenium in surface and cobalt in inner layer. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17199-0

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