title: Facile Synthesis of Single Crystal Vanadium Disulfide Nanosheets by Chemical Vapor Deposition for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Reaction.
abstract: A facile chemical vapor deposition method to prepare single-crystalline VS2 nanosheets for the hydrogen evolution reaction is reported. The electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activities of VS2 show an extremely low overpotential of -68 mV at 10 mA cm(-2), small Tafel slopes of ≈34 mV decade(-1), as well as high stability, demonstrating its potential as a candidate non-noble-metal catalyst for the HER.
authors: Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
authors: Jiangtan
authors: J
authors: Yuan
authors: Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
authors: Jingjie
authors: J
authors: Wu
authors: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
authors: Will J
authors: WJ
authors: Hardy
authors: Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
authors: Philip
authors: P
authors: Loya
authors: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
authors: Minhan
authors: M
authors: Lou
authors: Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
authors: Yingchao
authors: Y
authors: Yang
authors: Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
authors: Sina
authors: S
authors: Najmaei
authors: Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
authors: Menglei
authors: M
authors: Jiang
authors: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 77204, USA.
authors: Fan
authors: F
authors: Qin
authors: Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
authors: Kunttal
authors: K
authors: Keyshar
authors: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
authors: Heng
authors: H
authors: Ji
authors: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
authors: Weilu
authors: W
authors: Gao
authors: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 77204, USA.|Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China.
authors: Jiming
authors: J
authors: Bao
authors: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
authors: Junichiro
authors: J
authors: Kono
authors: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
authors: Douglas
authors: D
authors: Natelson
authors: Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
authors: Pulickel M
authors: PM
authors: Ajayan
authors: Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
authors: Jun
authors: J
authors: Lou
keywords: chemical vapor deposition; hydrogen evolution reactions; metals; transition metal dichalcogenides; vanadium disulfide