Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 14, Issue 47, Pages 52815-52824Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c14312
Keywords
molybdenum sulfide; heterojunction; hydrogen evolving catalyst; solar water splitting; photoelectrochemistry
Funding
- German Research Association (DFG) [SPP1613, FI 1524/4-2]
- EPSRC [EP/N032888/1]
- Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation (Germany)
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Thiomolybdate [Mo3S13]2- nanoclusters are a promising catalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction, showcasing high activity edge sites. The clusters demonstrate low overpotential and structural stability in sulfuric acid electrolyte, as well as significantly enhanced photocurrent on WSe2.
A thiomolybdate [Mo3S13]2- nanocluster is a promising catalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) due to the high number of active edge sites. In this work, thiomolybdate cluster films are prepared by spin-coating of a (NH4)2Mo3S13 solution both on FTO glass substrates as hydrogen evolving electrodes and on highly 00.1-textured WSe2 for photoelectrochemical water splitting. As an electrocatalyst, [Mo3S13]2- clusters demonstrate a low overpotential of 220 mV at 10 mA cm-2 in 0.5 M H2SO4 electrolyte (pH 0.3) and remain structurally stable during the electrochemical cycling as revealed by in situ Raman spectroscopy. Moreover, as a co-catalyst on WSe2, [Mo3S13]2- clusters enhance the photocurrent substantially by more than two orders of magnitude (from 0.02 to 2.8 mA cm-2 at 0 V vs RHE). The synergistic interactions between the photoelectrode and catalyst, i.e., surface passivation and band bending modification by the [Mo3S13]2- cluster film, promoted HER catalytic activity of [Mo3S13]2- clusters influenced by the WSe2 support, are revealed by intensity-modulated photocurrent spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations, respectively. The band alignment of the WSe2/[Mo3S13]2- heterojunction, which facilitates the electron injection, is determined by correlating UV-vis with photoelectron yield spectroscopy results.
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