The role of electronic coupling between substrate and 2D MoS2 nanosheets in electrocatalytic production of hydrogen

Nature Materials

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1003-1009

  Voiry, Damien ^a   Fullon, Raymond ^a   Yang, Jieun ^a   De Carvalho Castro E Silva, Cecilia ^a   Kappera, Rajesh ^a   Bozkurt, Ibrahim ^a   Kaplan, Daniel ^b   Lagos, Maureen J ^a,c,d   Batson, Philip E ^a,c,d   Gupta, Gautam ^e   Mohite, Aditya D ^e   Dong, Liang ^f   Er, Dequan ^f   Shenoy, Vivek B ^f   Asefa, Tewodros ^g,h   Chhowalla, Manish ^a  

^a Piscataway   (United States)

^b US Army ARDEC   (United States)

^c Universidad de Rutgers   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; CHARGE TRANSFER; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; MONOLAYERS; NANOSHEETS; SUBSTRATES;

CATALYTIC PROPERTIES; CHARGE TRANSFER KINETICS; EDGE CONCENTRATIONS; ELECTRICAL COUPLING; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; INTRINSIC ACTIVITIES; LOW-RESISTANCE CONTACTS; PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

EID: 84974712893     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4660     Document Type: Article

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