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Advanced materials for electrocatalytic and photoelectrochemical water splitting are central to the area of renewable energy. Here, we developed a solvothermal synthesis of MoS2 nanoparticles selectively on reduced graphene oxide (RGO)…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-04-18 Yanguang Li , Hailiang Wang , Liming Xie , Yongye Liang , Guosong Hong , Hongjie Dai

The development of noble-metal free electrocatalysts is of high importance for clean energy conversion applications. MoS$_2$ has been considered as a promising low cost catalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), however its…

The quantitative correlation of the catalytic activity with microscopic structure of heterogeneous catalysts is a major challenge for the field of catalysis science. It requests synergistic capabilities to tailor the structure with atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-17 Yifei Yu , Shengyang Huang , Yanpeng Li , Stephan Steinmann , Weitao Yang , Linyou Cao

Two-dimensional (2D) molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanosheets have attracted attention as a promising and cost-effective alternative catalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). However, their aggregation and poor conductivity limit…

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) is a prototypical layered transition-metal dichalcogenide whose electrocatalytic performance is governed by a delicate balance between crystallinity, defect density, and electronic conductivity. Here we report…

MoS2 are facile, stable, non-toxic, affordable materials with reasonable price, and have exhibit its superior potential in catalysis, sensing, opt electrochemical, environmental relate application1, etc. Modification of MoS2 materials has…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-03 Yang Cao

Clean hydrogen production through efficient and cost-effective electrochemical water splitting is highly promising to meeting future global energy demands. The design of Earth-abundant materials with both high activity for hydrogen…

Janus transition metal dichalcogenides (JTMDs) monolayers have emerged as a new paradigm to broaden the family of two-dimensional (2D) materials. Despite numerous theoretical predictions of JTMDs, their experimental realization remains…

Excellent gate electrostatics in field effect transistors (FETs) based on two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide (2D TMD) channels can dramatically decrease static power dissipation. Energy efficient FETs operate in enhancement…

Recently, topological quantum materials have emerged as a promising electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). However, most of their performance largely lags behind noble metals such as benchmark platinum (Pt). In this work, a…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-02 Qing Qu , Bin Liu , Wing Sum Lau , Ding Pan , Iam Keong Sou

Designing electrocatalysts for HER in alkaline conditions to overcome the sluggish kinetics associated with the additional water dissociation step is a recognized challenge in promoting the hydrogen economy. To this end, delicately tuning…

Unlike Si, 2-dimensional (2D) Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer atomically thin channels for carrier transport in FETs. Despite advantages like superior gate control, steep sub-threshold swing and high carrier mobility offered…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Ansh , Jeevesh Kumar , Ravi K Mishra , Srinivasan Raghavan , Mayank Shrivastava

Hydrogen fuel is an ideal energy source to replace the traditional fossil fuels because of its high energy density and renewability. Electrochemical water splitting is also regarded as a sustainable, cleaning and eco-friendly method for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 Zhexu Xi

Twisted multilayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials are an increasingly important platform for investigating quantum phases of matter, and in particular, strongly correlated electrons. The moir\'e pattern introduced by the relative twist…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-11 Mattia Angeli , Gabriel R. Schleder , Efthimios Kaxiras

This work presents a first-principles study of the optoelectronic properties of vertically-stacked bilayer heterostructures composed of 2D transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). The calculations are performed using the density-functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-15 Khushboo Dange , Rachana Yogi , Alok Shukla

Lateral heterostructures of 2D transition metal dichalcogenide offer a powerful platform to investigate photonic and electronic phenomena at atomically sharp interfaces. However, their controlled engineering, including tuning lateral domain…

Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors such as molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) hold great promise in electrical, optical, and mechanical devices and display novel physical phenomena such as coupled spin-valley physics and the…

The atomic-scale determination of hydrogen positions in MoSH monolayers remains experimentally challenging, and existing studies are confined to Janus-type configurations. Here, we combine high-throughput structural screening with…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-15 Zhijing Huang , Hongmei Xie , Zhibin Gao , Longyuzhi Xu , Lin Zhang , Li Yang , Zonglin Gu , Shuming Zeng

The interlayer coupling in van der Waals heterostructures governs a variety of optical and electronic properties. The intrinsic dipole moment of Janus transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offers a simple and versatile approach to tune…

Over the past few years, there has been a growing interest in layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2). Most studies so far have focused on the electronic and optoelectronic properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-03 Morteza Kayyalha , Jesse Maassen , Mark Lundstrom , Li Shi , Yong P. Chen