Nature Communications (Feb 2019)
Atomically engineering activation sites onto metallic 1T-MoS2 catalysts for enhanced electrochemical hydrogen evolution
- Yichao Huang,
- Yuanhui Sun,
- Xueli Zheng,
- Toshihiro Aoki,
- Brian Pattengale,
- Jier Huang,
- Xin He,
- Wei Bian,
- Sabrina Younan,
- Nicholas Williams,
- Jun Hu,
- Jingxuan Ge,
- Ning Pu,
- Xingxu Yan,
- Xiaoqing Pan,
- Lijun Zhang,
- Yongge Wei,
- Jing Gu
Affiliations
- Yichao Huang
- Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University
- Yuanhui Sun
- State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials of MOE, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University
- Xueli Zheng
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
- Toshihiro Aoki
- UC Irvine Materials Research Institute (IMRI), University of California - Irvine
- Brian Pattengale
- Department of Chemistry, Marquette University
- Jier Huang
- Department of Chemistry, Marquette University
- Xin He
- State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials of MOE, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University
- Wei Bian
- Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University
- Sabrina Younan
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Diego State University
- Nicholas Williams
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Diego State University
- Jun Hu
- Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University
- Jingxuan Ge
- Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University
- Ning Pu
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Nuclear Energy Technology, Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University
- Xingxu Yan
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California - Irvine
- Xiaoqing Pan
- UC Irvine Materials Research Institute (IMRI), University of California - Irvine
- Lijun Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials of MOE, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University
- Yongge Wei
- Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University
- Jing Gu
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Diego State University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08877-9
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 11
Abstract
While heterogeneous catalysts can act as tangible, efficient materials for energy conversion, understanding the active catalytic sites is challenging. Here, authors engineer specific catalytic sites into molybdenum sulfide to improve and elucidate hydrogen evolution electrocatalysis.
