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Hierarchical MoS2 intercalated clay hybrid nanosheets with enhanced catalytic activity

Show Author's Information Kang Peng1,2,§,  Liangjie Fu1,2,§,  Huaming Yang1,2,3( ),  Jing Ouyang1,2,  Aidong Tang4( )
Centre for Mineral Materials, School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
Hunan Key Lab of Mineral Materials & Application, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
State Key Lab of Powder Metallurgy, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China

§ These authors contributed equally to this work.

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MoS2, hydrothermal synthesis, heterogeneous catalysis, pillared montmorillonite, hybrid nanosheets
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Emerging hierarchical MoS2/pillared-montmorillonite (MoS2/PMMT) hybrid nanosheets were successfully prepared through facile in-situ hydrothermal synthesis of MoS2 within the interlayer of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide PMMT, and their catalytic performance was evaluated by the reduction reaction of 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) using NaBH4 as a reductant. Microstructure and morphology characterization indicated that MoS2/PMMT exhibited hybrid-stacked layered structures with an interlayer spacing of 1.29 nm, and the MoS2 nanosheets were intercalated within the montmorillonite (MMT) layers, with most of the edges exposed to the outside. The catalytic activity and stability of MoS2/PMMT were both enhanced by the MMT. With the MoS2/PMMT as the catalyst, the apparent reaction rate constant of the 4-NP reduction was 0.723 min-1 and was maintained at ~0.679 min-1 after five reaction cycles. The structural evolution of MoS2/PMMT and the possible catalysis mechanism for the reduction reaction of 4-NP were investigated. The as-prepared MoS2/PMMT hybrid nanosheets are promising candidates for catalytic application in the water-treatment and biomedical fields. The strategy developed in this study can provide insights for designing hybrid nanosheets with diverse heterogeneous two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials.


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Hierarchical MoS2 intercalated clay hybrid nanosheets with enhanced catalytic activity

Show Author's information Kang Peng1,2,§, Liangjie Fu1,2,§, Huaming Yang1,2,3( ), Jing Ouyang1,2, Aidong Tang4( )
Centre for Mineral Materials, School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
Hunan Key Lab of Mineral Materials & Application, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
State Key Lab of Powder Metallurgy, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China

§ These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Emerging hierarchical MoS2/pillared-montmorillonite (MoS2/PMMT) hybrid nanosheets were successfully prepared through facile in-situ hydrothermal synthesis of MoS2 within the interlayer of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide PMMT, and their catalytic performance was evaluated by the reduction reaction of 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) using NaBH4 as a reductant. Microstructure and morphology characterization indicated that MoS2/PMMT exhibited hybrid-stacked layered structures with an interlayer spacing of 1.29 nm, and the MoS2 nanosheets were intercalated within the montmorillonite (MMT) layers, with most of the edges exposed to the outside. The catalytic activity and stability of MoS2/PMMT were both enhanced by the MMT. With the MoS2/PMMT as the catalyst, the apparent reaction rate constant of the 4-NP reduction was 0.723 min-1 and was maintained at ~0.679 min-1 after five reaction cycles. The structural evolution of MoS2/PMMT and the possible catalysis mechanism for the reduction reaction of 4-NP were investigated. The as-prepared MoS2/PMMT hybrid nanosheets are promising candidates for catalytic application in the water-treatment and biomedical fields. The strategy developed in this study can provide insights for designing hybrid nanosheets with diverse heterogeneous two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials.

Keywords: MoS2, hydrothermal synthesis, heterogeneous catalysis, pillared montmorillonite, hybrid nanosheets

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Received: 13 August 2016
Revised: 25 September 2016
Accepted: 07 October 2016
Published: 09 December 2016
Issue date: February 2017

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This work was supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (No. 51225403), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41572036), the State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy, Central South University (2015-19) and the Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Project (No. 2015TP1006).

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