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Synergistic effect between Er-doped MoS₂ nanosheets and interfacial Mo–N coupling phases for enhanced electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution

Authors: Nian-Peng Li, Lei Zhang, Hua Zhang, Fan-Fei Min, Lei Wang, Sam Toan, Xi-Jun Liu, Guang-Zhi Hu

Published in: Rare Metals | Issue 3/2024

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Hydrogen production via electrochemical water splitting is a promising and green technology. As one of the most representative transition metal sulfides layered materials, Molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂) has immense potential for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). We successfully prepared a nitrogen-doped carbon (NC) in situ-grown erbium-doped MoS₂ polyhedral structure (Er-MoS₂/NC) that incorporates an interfacial Mo–N coupling phase. The Er-MoS₂/NC catalyst possesses superior HER catalytic activity with a overpotential of 5 mV at the current density of 10 mA·cm^-2 and a small Tafel slope about 76 mV·dec-1 along with excellent stability. The synergistic effect of rare-earth doping and the interfacial Mo–N coupling phase effectively modifies the electronic structure of layered MoS₂ by increasing the exposed active sites and further lowering the hydrogen adsorption energy. The present work offers a new avenue for synthesizing multilayer nanostructured materials to improve the performance of sulfide-based materials for electrocatalytic HER.

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Title: Synergistic effect between Er-doped MoS2 nanosheets and interfacial Mo–N coupling phases for enhanced electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution
Authors: Nian-Peng Li
Lei Zhang
Hua Zhang
Fan-Fei Min
Lei Wang
Sam Toan
Xi-Jun Liu
Guang-Zhi Hu
Publication date: 09-11-2023
Publisher: Nonferrous Metals Society of China
Published in: Rare Metals / Issue 3/2024
Print ISSN: 1001-0521
Electronic ISSN: 1867-7185
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-023-02409-7

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