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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 133, Issue 19, Pages 7296-7299Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja201269b
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- NSF [CHE-0639053]
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Advanced materials for electrocatalytic and photoelectrochemical water splitting are central to the area of renewable energy. In this work, we developed a selective solvothermal synthesis of MoS2 nanoparticles on reduced graphene oxide (RGO) sheets suspended in solution. The resulting MoS2/RGO hybrid material possessed nanoscopic few-layer MoS2 structures with an abundance of exposed edges stacked onto graphene, in strong contrast to large aggregated MoS2 particles grown freely in solution without GO. The MoS2/RGO hybrid exhibited superior electrocatalytic activity in the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) relative to other MoS2 catalysts. A Tafel slope of similar to 41 mV/decade was measured for MoS2 catalysts in the HER for the first time; this exceeds by far the activity of previous MoS2 catalysts and results from the abundance of catalytic edge sites on the MoS2 nanoparticles and the excellent electrical coupling to the underlying graphene network. The similar to 41 mV/decade Tafel slope suggested the Volmer-Heyrovsky mechanism for the MoS2-catalyzed HER, with electrochemical desorption of hydrogen as the rate-limiting step.
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