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Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC Advances, 1(6), p. 23-30

DOI: 10.1039/c5ra21638a

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One-pot synthesis of nanosheet-assembled hierarchical MoSe2/CoSe2microcages for the enhanced performance of electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution

Journal article published in 2016 by C. H. Mu, H. X. Qi, Y. Q. Song, Z. P. Liu, L. X. Ji, J. G. Deng, Y. B. Liao, F. Scarpa ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Highly active noble metal-free hydrogen evolution catalysts are critical for the development of more energy and cost-efficient hydrogen production. We report for the first time a novel nanosheet-assembled tube-like hierarchical MoSe2/CoSe2 microcage synthesized via a very simple and facile one-pot hydrothermal method for the electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). The hierarchical structure of the MoSe2/CoSe2 microcage can be easily tuned by merely varying the Mo/Co ratio. Compared against pure MoSe2 and CoSe2 nano compounds synthesized by following the same procedure, the MoSe2/CoSe2 with an optimized composition shows a significantly enhanced HER activity, with a much lower onset of overpotential, larger cathodic current, and a smaller Tafel slope. The HER improvement is attributed to the increase in conductivity originating from the hierarchical tube-like structure, as well as by the nano defects induced by the Mo/Co synergic effect. This work opens a new class of nanomaterials for the development of an efficient hybrid HER catalyst.