Journal
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 425, Issue -, Pages 241-245Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2017.06.211
Keywords
2-Dimension dichalcogenide; Hydrogen evolution; Hybrid composite material; MoS2; WS2
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- Center for Advanced Soft Electronics under the Global Frontier Research Program of the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, Korea [2011-0031636]
- Korea Research Fellowship (KRF) program through the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea - Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning [NRF-2016H1D3A1938211]
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Recently, the importance of developing an effective catalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction is emphasized because hydrogen fueled energy conversion processes are gaining attention as the next generation energy production method. We propose a transition metal dichalcogenide composite catalyst based on molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and tungsten disulfide (WS2) on reduced graphene oxide coated nickel (rGO-Ni) foams. The composite exhibited enhanced catalytic activity with observed on-set potential of similar to 275 mV at -10 mA/cm(2) and Tafel slope of 54.1 mV/dec when the composition of the composite was 50% MoS2-50% WS2. The composite catalyst demonstrated high-stability up to 300 cycles. In order to understand the enhanced catalytic activity, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy compositional analysis was utilized. We propose that the enhancement of catalytic activities exhibited by the composited samples were achieved due to introduction of new type of interface between MoS2 and WS2 grains, regional transition of 2H phase MoS2 and WS2 to 1T phase, and formation of excess sulfur which depended directly on the composition. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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