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Two dimensional MoS2 meets porphyrins via intercalation to enhance the electrocatalytic activity toward hydrogen
Ik Seon Kwon1, In Hye Kwak1, Hafiz Ghulam Abbas2
1Department of Chemistry, Korea University, Sejong 339-700, Republic of Korea. parkjh@korea.ac.kr.
Abstract:
Two-dimensional MoS2 meets porphyrin molecules to form unique 1T' phase intercalated complexes via a one-step procedure of hydrothermal reactions. The resultant Mn-porphyrin-MoS2 exhibits excellent electrocatalytic activity toward the hydrogen evolution reaction, with a Tafel slope of 35 mV dec-1 and 10 mA cm-2 at an overpotential of 0.125 V. Spin-polarized density functional theory calculations confirmed that the intercalation of Mn-porphyrin into 1T'-MoS2 is quite favourable due to strong charge transfer from Mn metals. Their outstanding catalytic performance could be ascribed to the high electron concentration as well as the low activation barrier of the Heyrovsky reaction.
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