The ever increasing need for renewable and clean energy resources as well as environmental concerns are considered as two serious challenges of today’s society. Photocatalysis has proved to be a reliable and effective technology to overcome these issues. However, to bring the full potential of this approach into reality, two main hurdles of fast charge …
The development of electrocatalysts to meet the requirements of renewable energy applications has seen much attention placed on transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) materials owing to their promising properties. In particular, the strategy of atomic doping has garnered some success in tuning the electronic properties and harnessing the vast potential that TMDs can offer in the catalysis …
We set forth to investigate the changes in the inherent oxidative peaks of different transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), namely MoS2, MoSe2, WS2, and WSe2, at different electrolyte pH values. Changing the pH of the electrolyte was found to influence and affect the inherent oxidation of TMDs, more noticeably the peak position. This could be attributed to …
The layered structure of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is structurally similar to that of graphite, with individual sheets strongly covalently bonded within but held together through weak van der Waals interactions. This results in two distinct surfaces of MoS2: basal and edge planes. The edge plane was theoretically predicted to be more electroactive than the basal …
Beyond MoS2 as the first transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) to have gained recognition as an efficient catalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), interest in other TMD nanomaterials is steadily beginning to proliferate. This is particularly true in the field of electrochemistry, with a myriad of emerging applications ranging from catalysis to supercapacitors and solar …
