Solution-phase epitaxial growth of noble metal nanostructures on dispersible single-layer molybdenum disulfide nanosheets

Xiao Huang, Zhiyuan Zeng, Shuyu Bao, Mengfei Wang, Xiaoying Qi, Zhanxi Fan and Hua Zhang ()
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Xiao Huang: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
Zhiyuan Zeng: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
Shuyu Bao: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
Mengfei Wang: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
Xiaoying Qi: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
Zhanxi Fan: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
Hua Zhang: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University

Nature Communications, 2013, vol. 4, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract Compared with the conventional deposition techniques used for the epitaxial growth of metallic structures on a bulk substrate, wet-chemical synthesis based on the dispersible template offers several advantages, including relatively low cost, high throughput, and the capability to prepare metal nanostructures with controllable size and morphology. Here we demonstrate that the solution-processable two-dimensional MoS2 nanosheet can be used to direct the epitaxial growth of Pd, Pt and Ag nanostructures at ambient conditions. These nanostructures show the major (111) and (101) orientations on the MoS2(001) surface. Importantly, the Pt–MoS2 hybrid nanomaterials exhibit much higher electrocatalytic activity towards the hydrogen evolution reaction compared with the commercial Pt catalysts with the same Pt loading. We believe that nanosheet-templated epitaxial growth of nanostructures via wet-chemical reaction is a promising strategy towards the facile and high-yield production of novel functional materials.

Date: 2013
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