Highly Efficient Hydrogen Evolution from Edge-Oriented WS2(1

By Zhou, Haiqing; Yu, Fang; Sun, Jingying; Zhu, Hangtian; Mishra, Ishwar Kumar; Chen, Shuo; Ren, Zhifeng
Published in Nano Letters 2016

Abstract

The large consumption of natural fossil fuels and accompanying environmental problems are driving the exploration of cost-effective and robust catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in water splitting. Tungsten dichalcogenides (WS2, WSe2, etc.) are promising candidates for such purpose, but their HER performances are inherently limited by the sparse catalytic edge sites and poor electrical conductivity. Here we demonstrate a highly active and stable HER catalyst by integrating ternary tungsten sulfoselenide WS2(1

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