Hydrazine Hydrate Intercalated 1T-Dominant MoS2 with Superior Ambient Stability for Highly Efficient Electrocatalytic Applications

Autor: Mengyao Li, Zizhen Zhou, Long Hu, Shuangyue Wang, Yingze Zhou, Renbo Zhu, Xueze Chu, Ajayan Vinu, Tao Wan, Claudio Cazorla, Jiabao Yi, Dewei Chu
Přispěvatelé: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. CCQM - Condensed, Complex and Quantum Matter Group
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14:16338-16347
ISSN: 1944-8252
1944-8244
Popis: This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, copyright © 2022 American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c02675. Metallic 1T-phase MoS2 exhibits superior hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) performance than natural 2H-phase MoS2 owing to its higher electrical conductivity and abundance of active sites. However, the reported 1T-MoS2 catalysts usually suffer from extreme instability, which results in quick phase transformation at ambient conditions. Herein, we present a facile approach to engineer the phase of MoS2 by introducing intercalated hydrazine. Interestingly, the as-synthesized 1T-dominant MoS2 sample demonstrates excellent ambient stability without noticeable degradation for 3 months. Additionally, the 1T-dominant MoS2 exhibits superior electrical conductivity (~700 times higher than that of 2H-MoS2) and improved electrochemical catalytic performance (current density ~12 times larger than that of 2H-MoS2 at an overpotential of 300 mV vs the reversible hydrogen electrode, RHE). Through experimental characterizations and density functional theory (DFT) calculation, we conclude that the stabilization of the metallic phase could be attributed to the electron donation from hydrazine molecules to the adjacent Mo atoms. The phase control strategy in this work provides a guideline to develop other highly efficient and stable two-dimensional (2D) electrocatalysts.
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