Issue 52, 2012
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Chemical Communications

Hydrogen evolution across nano-Schottky junctions at carbon supported MoS2catalysts in biphasic liquid systems†

Peiyu Ge,a   Micheál D. Scanlon,a   Pekka Peljo,b   Xiaojun Bian,c   Heron Vubrel,d   Arlene O'Neill,e   Jonathan N. Coleman,e   Marco Cantoni,f   Xile Hu,d   Kyösti Kontturi,b   BaoHong Liuc  and  Hubert H. Girault*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Laboratoire d'Electrochimie Physique et Analytique (LEPA), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
E-mail: Hubert.Girault@epfl.ch
Fax: +41 693 3667
Tel: +41 693 3145

b Department of Chemistry, Aalto University, P.O. Box 16100, Finland

c Department of Chemistry, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China

d Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis (LISC), EPFL, BCH-3305, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

e School of Physics and Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN), Trinity College Dublin, D2, Ireland

f Interdisciplinary Centre for Electron Microscopy (CIME), EPFL, Station 12, Lausanne, Switzerland

Abstract

The activities of a series of MoS2-based hydrogen evolution catalysts were studied by biphasic reactions monitored by UV/Vis spectroscopy. Carbon supported MoS2 catalysts performed best due to an abundance of catalytic edge sites and strong electronic coupling of catalyst to support.

Graphical abstract: Hydrogen evolution across nano-Schottky junctions at carbon supported MoS2 catalysts in biphasic liquid systems

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC31398G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
24 Feb 2012
Accepted
11 May 2012
First published
14 May 2012

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 6484-6486

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Hydrogen evolution across nano-Schottky junctions at carbon supported MoS2 catalysts in biphasic liquid systems

P. Ge, M. D. Scanlon, P. Peljo, X. Bian, H. Vubrel, A. O'Neill, J. N. Coleman, M. Cantoni, X. Hu, K. Kontturi, B. Liu and H. H. Girault, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 6484 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC31398G

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