Growth of MoSe2 nanosheets with small size and expanded spaces of (002) plane on the surfaces of porous N-doped carbon nanotubes for hydrogen production

Bin Qu; Chunyan Li; Chunling Zhu; Shuo Wang; Xitian Zhang; Yujin Chen

doi:10.1039/c6nr04619c

Growth of MoSe₂ nanosheets with small size and expanded spaces of (002) plane on the surfaces of porous N-doped carbon nanotubes for hydrogen production

Nanoscale. 2016 Sep 29;8(38):16886-16893. doi: 10.1039/c6nr04619c.

Authors

Bin Qu¹, Chunyan Li², Chunling Zhu³, Shuo Wang², Xitian Zhang⁴, Yujin Chen²

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry of Education, and College of Science, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China. chenyujin@hrbeu.edu.cn and Key Laboratory for Photonic and Electronic Bandgap Materials, Ministry of Education and School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Harbin Normal University, Harbin, 150025, China.
² Key Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry of Education, and College of Science, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China. chenyujin@hrbeu.edu.cn.
³ College of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China.
⁴ Key Laboratory for Photonic and Electronic Bandgap Materials, Ministry of Education and School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Harbin Normal University, Harbin, 150025, China.

PMID: 27714052
DOI: 10.1039/c6nr04619c

Abstract

MoSe₂ nanosheets with small size and expanded spaces between the (002) planes were grown on the surfaces of porous N-doped carbon nanotubes (NCNTs) with much higher HER activity than carbon nanotubes without N dopants. Owing to the synergistic effects between the MoSe₂ nanosheets and the porous NCNT substrate, MoSe₂/NCNTs exhibit superior HER activity to layered metal chalcogenides reported previously.