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dc.contributor.author | Tran, Phong Dinh | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-05T00:45:59Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-02-05T00:45:59Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016-03 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | NATURE MATERIALS, v. 15, NO 6, Page. 640-640 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1476-1122 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1476-4660 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.nature.com/articles/nmat4588 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11754/35362 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Molybdenum sulfides are very attractive noble-metal-free electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) from water. The atomic structure and identity of the catalytically active sites have been well established for crystalline molybdenum disulfide (c-MoS2) but not for amorphous molybdenum sulfide (a-MoSx), which exhibits significantly higher HER activity compared to its crystalline counterpart. Here we show that HER-active a-MoSx, prepared either as nanoparticles or as films, is a molecular-based coordination polymer consisting of discrete [Mo3S13](2-) building blocks. Of the three terminal disulfide (S-2(2-)) ligands within these clusters, two are shared to form the polymer chain. The third one remains free and generates molybdenum hydride moieties as the active site under H-2 evolution conditions. Such a molecular structure therefore provides a basis for revisiting the mechanism of a-MoSx catalytic activity, as well as explaining some of its special properties such as reductive activation and corrosion. Our findings open up new avenues for the rational optimization of this HER electrocatalyst as an alternative to platinum. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | P.D.T. and J.B. acknowledge the Energy Research Institute @ Nanyang Technological University (ERI@N) and the Singapore-Berkeley Research Initiative for Sustainable Energy (SinBeRISE) CREATE for financial and facilities supports. P.D.T. acknowledges University of Science and Technology of Hanoi for startup funding support (project USTH PECH2). Q.D.T. and I.H. acknowledge the Japan Society for Promotion of Science for financial support (Grant No. P13070). This work was supported by the French National Research Agency (Labex program, ARCANE, ANR-11-LABX-0003-01) and the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement n.306398. J. Perard is gratefully acknowledged for his help during ICP-AES measurements. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP | en_US |
dc.subject | X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON | en_US |
dc.subject | SILICON PHOTOCATHODE | en_US |
dc.subject | MOS2 | en_US |
dc.subject | ELECTROCATALYST | en_US |
dc.subject | SPECTROSCOPY | en_US |
dc.subject | CLUSTERS | en_US |
dc.subject | GENERATION | en_US |
dc.subject | NANOSHEETS | en_US |
dc.subject | ELECTRODE | en_US |
dc.subject | ABUNDANT | en_US |
dc.title | Coordination polymer structure and revisited hydrogen evolution catalytic mechanism for amorphous molybdenum sulfide | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.relation.no | 6 | - |
dc.relation.volume | 15 | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/NMAT4588 | - |
dc.relation.page | 640-640 | - |
dc.relation.journal | NATURE MATERIALS | - |
dc.contributor.googleauthor | Tran, Phong D. | - |
dc.contributor.googleauthor | Tran, Thu V. | - |
dc.contributor.googleauthor | Orio, Maylis | - |
dc.contributor.googleauthor | Torelli, Stephane | - |
dc.contributor.googleauthor | Truong, Quang Duc | - |
dc.contributor.googleauthor | Nayuki, Keiichiro | - |
dc.contributor.googleauthor | Sasaki, Yoshikazu | - |
dc.contributor.googleauthor | Chiam, Sing Yang | - |
dc.contributor.googleauthor | Yi, Ren | - |
dc.contributor.googleauthor | Honma, Itaru | - |
dc.relation.code | 2016003464 | - |
dc.sector.campus | S | - |
dc.sector.daehak | COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCES[S] | - |
dc.sector.department | DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY | - |
dc.identifier.pid | trandp | - |
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