Operando Raman Spectroscopy of Amorphous Molybdenum Sulfide (MoSx) during the Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Reaction: Identification of Sulfur Atoms as Catalytically Active Sites for H+ Reduction

ACS Catalysis

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 7790-7798

  Deng, Yilin ^a   Ting, Louisa Rui Lin ^a   Neo, Perlin Hui Lin ^a   Zhang, Yin Jia ^b   Peterson, Andrew A ^c   Yeo, Boon Siang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

active site; amorphous molybdenum sulfide; density functional theory; electrocatalyst; hydrogen evolution reaction; Raman spectroscopy; X ray photoelectron spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROLYTES; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; REDUCTION; STRETCHING; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ACTIVE SITE; ECONOMICALLY VIABLE; EFFICIENT CATALYSTS; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; MOLYBDENUM SULFIDE; QUANTUM-CHEMICAL SIMULATIONS; STRETCHING VIBRATIONS; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS;

EID: 84994406910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21555435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.6b01848     Document Type: Article

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