title: Growth Control of MoS2 Nanosheets on Carbon Cloth for Maximum Active Edges Exposed: An Excellent Hydrogen Evolution 3D Cathode.
abstract: To greatly improve the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) performance, it is the key approach to expose as many active edges of MoS2 as possible. This target is the research hotspot and difficulty of MoS2 which is a promising HER catalyst. In this work, we realized the active-edges control of MoS2 nanosheets on carbon cloth (CC) by growth control during the synthesis procedure. Moreover, MoS2 nanosheets vertically grown on carbon cloth (MoS2⊥CC) was confirmed to be the best morphology with maximum active edges exposed. Multifactors structure control resulted in abundant active-edges exposure and effective electron delivery, thus excellent HER activity. This three-dimensional cathode, MoS2⊥CC, can reach a great current density of 200 mA/cm(2) at a small overpotential of 205 mV. The preeminent HER performance can rival the best MoS2-based catalyst ever reported.
authors.affiliation: †State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, c/o Engineering Laboratory for Modern Analytical Techniques, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, Jilin, China.|‡University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China.
authors.forename: Nan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: †State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, c/o Engineering Laboratory for Modern Analytical Techniques, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, Jilin, China.
authors.forename: Shiyu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gan
authors.affiliation: †State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, c/o Engineering Laboratory for Modern Analytical Techniques, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, Jilin, China.
authors.forename: Tongshun
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: †State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, c/o Engineering Laboratory for Modern Analytical Techniques, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, Jilin, China.|‡University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China.
authors.forename: Weiguang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: †State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, c/o Engineering Laboratory for Modern Analytical Techniques, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, Jilin, China.
authors.forename: Dongxue
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Han
authors.affiliation: †State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, c/o Engineering Laboratory for Modern Analytical Techniques, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, Jilin, China.
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Niu
keywords: MoS2 nanosheets; active-edges control; hydrogen evolution reaction; three-dimensional; vertical alignment