Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Two-dimensional metallic tantalum disulfide as a hydrogen evolution catalyst

  • Jianping Shi,
  • Xina Wang,
  • Shuai Zhang,
  • Lingfeng Xiao,
  • Yahuan Huan,
  • Yue Gong,
  • Zhepeng Zhang,
  • Yuanchang Li,
  • Xiebo Zhou,
  • Min Hong,
  • Qiyi Fang,
  • Qing Zhang,
  • Xinfeng Liu,
  • Lin Gu,
  • Zhongfan Liu,
  • Yanfeng Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01089-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Metallic transition metal dichalcogenides are important materials for catalysis, but scalable and controllable preparation methods are scarce. Here, the authors synthesize 2H-TaS2 as centimetre-scale films of tunable thickness and show they are an efficient catalyst for hydrogen evolution.