Controllable selenium vacancy engineering in basal planes of mechanically exfoliated WSe2 monolayer nanosheets for efficient electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution

Ying Sun, Xuewei Zhang, Baoguang Mao, Minhua Cao*

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Abstract

Engineering intrinsic selenium vacancies (Se-vacancies) was achieved in mechanically exfoliated WSe2 monolayer nanosheets (WSe2 MLNSs) via an annealing treatment. Our theoretical and experimental results reveal that these Se-vacancies can efficiently activate and optimize the basal planes of the WSe2 MLNSs. As expected, the optimized catalyst exhibits efficient electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)14266-14269
Number of pages4
JournalChemical Communications
Volume52
Issue number99
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

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Sun, Y., Zhang, X., Mao, B., & Cao, M. (2016). Controllable selenium vacancy engineering in basal planes of mechanically exfoliated WSe2 monolayer nanosheets for efficient electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Chemical Communications, 52(99), 14266-14269. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6cc07832j