Low-temperature Synthesis of Heterostructures of Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Alloys (WxMo1-xS2) and Graphene with Superior Catalytic Performance for Hydrogen Evolution

ACS Nano

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 5103-5112

  Lei, Yu ^a   Pakhira, Srimanta ^b,c   Fujisawa, Kazunori ^a   Wang, Xuyang ^d   Iyiola, Oluwagbenga Oare ^b,c   Perea López, Néstor ^a   Laura Elías, Ana ^a   Pulickal Rajukumar, Lakshmy ^a   Zhou, Chanjing ^a   Kabius, Bernd ^a   Alem, Nasim ^a   Endo, Morinobu ^e   Lv, Ruitao ^d   Mendoza Cortes, Jose L ^b,c   Terrones, Mauricio ^a,e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

density functional theory (DFT) calculations; heterostructures; hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) mechanism; reduced graphene oxide (rGO); transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) alloy

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; CATALYSTS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ENERGY BARRIERS; GRAPHENE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HYDROGEN; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; METALS; PLATINUM; POINT DEFECTS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSITION METAL ALLOYS; TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS; TUNGSTEN;

CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; LOW TEMPERATURE SYNTHESIS; LOWER ENERGY BARRIERS; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO); THERMAL TREATMENT AT LOW TEMPERATURES; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; WET CHEMICAL ROUTE;

MOLYBDENUM;

EID: 85019850124     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b02060     Document Type: Article

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