@article{Wang2022, 
author = {Tingting Wang and Pengyan Wang and Yajun Pang and Yitian Wu and Jin Yang and Hao Chen and Xiaorui Gao and Shichun Mu and Zongkui Kou},
title = {Vertically mounting molybdenum disulfide nanosheets on dimolybdenum carbide nanomeshes enables efficient hydrogen evolution},
year = {2022},
journal = {Nano Research},
volume = {15},
number = {5},
pages = {3946-3951},
keywords = {hydrogen evolution reaction, transition metal carbide, transition metal disulfide, two-dimensional nonlayered/layered heterostructure, hydrogen adsorption/desorption},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.1007/s12274-022-4072-5},
doi = {10.1007/s12274-022-4072-5},
abstract = {Designing hierarchical heterostructure to optimize the adsorption of hydrogen intermediate (H*) is impressive for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalysis. Herein, we show that vertically mounting two-dimensional (2D) layered molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanosheets on 2D nonlayered dimolybdenum carbide (Mo2C) nanomeshes to form a hierarchical heterostructure largely accelerates the HER kinetics in acidic electrolyte due to the weakening adsorption strength of H* on 2D Mo2C nanomeshes. Our hierarchical MoS2/Mo2C heterostructure therefore gives a decrease of overpotential for up to 500 mV at −10 mA·cm−2 and an almost 200-fold higher kinetics current density compared with the pristine Mo2C nanomeshes and maintains robust stability with a small drop of overpotential for only 16 mV upon 5,000 cycles. We further rationalize this finding by theoretical calculations and find an optimized adsorption free energy of H*, identifying that the MoS2 featuring strong H* desorption plays a key role in weakening the strong binding of Mo2C with H* and therefore improves the intrinsic HER activity on active C sites of Mo2C. This present finding shines the light on the rational design of heterostructured catalysts with synergistic geometry.}
}