Structurally Deformed MoS2 for Electrochemically Stable, Thermally Resistant, and Highly Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Y.-C.C. and A.-Y.L. contributed equally to this work. V.T. gratefully acknowledges the research award from the Doctoral New Investigator Award from ACS Petroleum Fund (ACS PRF 54717-DNI10, V.T.). Characterization and fabrication of HER electrodes in this work were performed as User Proposals (#4240) at the Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. Raman spectroscopy was performed at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), a DOE Energy Innovation Hub, supported through the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Award Number DE-SC0004993. Y.C. acknowledges the fellowship support from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) grant no. NNX15AQ01. Work at Sandia, including experimental design, materials synthesis, microscopy, were supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering. Equipment at Sandia were furnished with support from the Laboratory Directed Research and Development programs. Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA-0003525. A.Y.L, X.Y., and L.J.L. acknowledge the support from KAUST. V.T. is indebted to Dr. Hidetaka Ishihara, Xuan Wei, Jose Hernandez, Teresa L. Chen, and Vipawee Limsakoune, for the fruitful discussion in droplet dynamics and assistance in instrumentation.