Co-Construction of Sulfur Vacancies and
Heterogeneous Interface into Ni3S2/MoS2 Catalysts to Achieve Highly Efficient Overall Water Splitting
Zhaoyang An, Hui Xue*, Jing Sun, Niankun Guo, Tianshan Song, Jiawen Sun, Yi-Ru Hao and Qin Wang*
Chin.
J. Struct. Chem. 2022, 41, 2208037-2208043 DOI: 10.14102/j.cnki.0254-5861.2022-0130
July 25, 2022
sulfur vacancies, heterostructures, transition metal chalcogenides, overall water splitting
ABSTRACT
Integrating the
advantages of anion vacancies and heterostructures into
the catalytic materials may
increase the binding affinities to intermediates, provide more active sites,
and significantly promote the activity of overall water splitting. However, the successful assembly of anion
vacancies and heterostructures for high-efficiency water splitting performance is still challenging. In
this work, we ingeniously present the co-construction of sulfur vacancies and
heterogeneous interface into Ni3S2/MoS2 catalysts on nickel foam (NF). The introduction of
sulfur vacancies and Ni3S2/MoS2 heterostructures can significantly improve electron and ion transport,
effectively improve structural stability, and enhance overall water splitting
activity. The
obtained VS-Ni3S2/MoS2 catalysts (VS stands for sulfur vacancies) exhibit superior
OER and HER activities, and the overpotentials
for OER and HER
are 180 and 71 mV at 10 mA·cm-2, respectively. Furthermore, a low water splitting voltage of 1.46 V is
required at 10 mA·cm-2 for the VS-Ni3S2/MoS2 catalysts, which
is considerably lower than most of the water splitting electrocatalysts
currently reported. This work offers an effective mean for the preparation
of catalysts with both anion vacancies and
heterostructures for achieving high-performance alkaline overall
water splitting.