Journal
ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 180, Issue -, Pages 155-163Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2015.08.108
Keywords
polyaniline; integrative hybrid; edge-rich; MoS2 nanosheets; hydrogen evolution reaction
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- NSFC, China [21205112, 21225524, 21475122, 21127006]
- Department of Science and Techniques of Jilin Province [20120308, 201215091, SYHZ0006]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [YZ201354, YZ201355]
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Conductive polymer polyaniline (PANI) with abundant protonated sites which are beneficial to hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), was applied as the support of MoS2 for enhanced HER performance for the first time. The novel three dimensional (3D) HER catalyst (MoS2/PANI) was constructed with two dimensional (2D) MoS2 building blocks rooting into the integrative nanowires. PANI nanofibers acted as excellent substrates for the uniform, dense and approximate vertical growth of MoS2 nanosheets exposing abundant active edges. Consequently, excellent HER performance has been achieved with a low onset overpotential of 100 mV and a small Tafel slope of 45 mV dec(-1). Most importantly, it only needed 200 and 247 my overpotential to reach the current density of 30 and 100 mA/cm(2) respectively. Additionally, MoS2/PANI has achieved superior stability over other MoS2-polymer-based HER electrocatalyst. In general, for the first time, employing PANI for the construction of the edge-rich integrative hybrid has successfully achieved an outstanding HER performance. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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