Rational design of stable sulfur vacancies in molybdenum disulfide for hydrogen evolution

Zhao, Yunxing; Tang, Michael T.; Wu, Sudong; Geng, Jing; Han, Zhaojun; Chan, Karen; Gao, Pingqi; Li, Hong

doi:10.1016/j.jcat.2019.12.028

Title: Rational design of stable sulfur vacancies in molybdenum disulfide for hydrogen evolution

Journal Article · 01 February 2020 · Journal of Catalysis

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2019.12.028 · OSTI ID:1580683

Zhao, Yunxing ^[1]; Tang, Michael T. ^[2]; Wu, Sudong ^[3]; Geng, Jing ^[3];

^[4]; Chan, Karen ^[5]; Gao, Pingqi ^[6];

^[7]

Nanyang Technological Univ. (Singapore); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Ningbo (China)
Stanford Univ., CA (United States). SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Ningbo (China)
CSIRO Manufacturing, Lindfield, NSW (Australia); Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (Australia)
Technical Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby (Denmark)
Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Guangzhou (China)
Nanyang Technological Univ. (Singapore)

Sulfur (S) vacancies in MoS₂ have been found to act as a new active center, which shows an unprecedented intrinsic HER activity under elastic strain. However, such S-vacancies are unstable and the activities are very sensitive to the vacancy concentration. A strategy to stabilize these abundant active sites is thus highly desirable. Herein, we rationally design a catalyst system to stabilize S-vacancies in the basal plane of $2H-$MoS₂ supported on defective vertical graphene network (VGN). The energetically favorable line-shaped S-vacancies in MoS₂ shows a consistently high HER activity that is insensitive to S-vacancy concentration. Moreover, the defective graphene support effectively stabilizes these S-vacancies. The optimized catalyst exhibits a superior HER activity with overpotential of 128 mV at 10 mA cm^-2 and Tafel slope of 50 mV dec^-1. Most importantly, the catalyst shows greatly increased stability over 500 h; benchmarking the most stable nonprecious HER catalyst in acidic media to date.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1580683

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1591954

Journal Information:: Journal of Catalysis, Vol. 382, Issue C; ISSN 0021-9517

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Country of Publication:: United States

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