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Amorphous MoS2 confined in nitrogen-doped porous carbon for improved electrocatalytic stability toward hydrogen evolution reaction
Wei Chen1(
), Shaoming Huang1,2()
), Shaoming Huang1,2()Abstract
Developing non-precious metal catalysts with high activity and stability for electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is of great significance in both science and technology. In this work, N-doped CMK-3, which was prepared with a casting method using SBA-15 as the hard template and ammonia as the nitrogen source, has been utilized to hold MoS2 and restrict its growth to form MoS2@N-CMK-3 composite. As a result, MoS2 was found to have poorly crystallized and the limited space of porous N-CMK-3 made its size much small. Then there are more active sites in MoS2. Accordingly, MoS2@N-CMK-3 has exhibited good electrocatalytic performance toward HER in acids with a quite small Tafel slope of 32 mV·dec-1. And more importantly, compared to MoS2@CMK-3, its stability has been greatly improved, which can be attributed to the interaction between MoS2 and nitrogen atoms avoiding aggregation and mass loss. This work provides an idea that doping a porous carbon support with nitrogen is an effective way to enhance the stability of the catalyst.
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Lu S, Wang W, Yang S, et al. Amorphous MoS2 confined in nitrogen-doped porous carbon for improved electrocatalytic stability toward hydrogen evolution reaction. Nano Research, 2019, 12(12): 3116-3122. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-019-2563-9
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