Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Boundary activated hydrogen evolution reaction on monolayer MoS2

  • Jianqi Zhu,
  • Zhi-Chang Wang,
  • Huijia Dai,
  • Qinqin Wang,
  • Rong Yang,
  • Hua Yu,
  • Mengzhou Liao,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Wei Chen,
  • Zheng Wei,
  • Na Li,
  • Luojun Du,
  • Dongxia Shi,
  • Wenlong Wang,
  • Lixin Zhang,
  • Ying Jiang,
  • Guangyu Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09269-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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While water-splitting electrocatalysts enable energy storage in carbon-neutral fuels, a recent challenge has been the discovery and understanding of catalyst active sites. Here, authors find domain boundaries in MoS2 materials to present high-activity, stable, and scalable sites for H2 evolution.