Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Rational strain engineering of single-atom ruthenium on nanoporous MoS2 for highly efficient hydrogen evolution

  • Kang Jiang,
  • Min Luo,
  • Zhixiao Liu,
  • Ming Peng,
  • Dechao Chen,
  • Ying-Rui Lu,
  • Ting-Shan Chan,
  • Frank M. F. de Groot,
  • Yongwen Tan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21956-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The modulation of single-atom catalyst properties for industrial applications remains challenging. Here, authors use strain engineering to amplify the synergistic effect between MoS2’s sulphur vacancies and single-atom Ru sites and accelerate H2 evolution electrocatalysis.