Recent advances in defect-engineered transition metal dichalcogenides for enhanced electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution: perfecting imperfections

• Main Authors: Tan, Zheng Hao, Kong, Xin Ying, Ng, Boon-Junn, Soo, Han Sen, Abdul Rahman Mohamed, Chai, Siang-Piao
• Other Authors: School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Science::Chemistry; Engineering::Chemical technology; Defect engineering; Transition Metal Dichalcogenides; Water Splitting; Electrocatalysis; Hydrogen Production; Sulfur Vacancies; Selenium Vacancies
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/164166
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Switching to renewable, carbon-neutral sources of energy is urgent and critical for climate change mitigation. Despite how hydrogen production by electrolyzing water can enable renewable energy storage, current technologies unfortunately require rare and expensive platinum group metal electrocatalys...