Abstract
Electrochemical water splitting is promising system for the efficient hydrogen production. Much effort has been devoted to developing cost-effective, catalytically active, and stable electrocatalysts for both the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). In this work, we synthesized Co9S8-MoS2 nanohybrid structures derived from CoMo-based bimetallic metal–organic frameworks via a one-pot hydrothermal route followed by sulfurization. Co9S8-MoS2 nanohybrids, composed of small Co9S8-MoS2 core–shell nanospheres covered by large Co9S8/MoS2 nanostructures, are efficient electrocatalysts for both the HER and OER owing to their porous bimetallic structures with large number of surface area and numerous catalytically active sites. The Co9S8-MoS2 nanohybrids show small overpotentials of 110 and 270 mV at 10 mA cm−2 in 1.0 M KOH for the HER and OER, respectively. Furthermore, even after 1000 cycles, the Co9S8-MoS2 nanohybrids exhibited good stability and small Tafel slopes of 59 and 66 mV dec−1 for both the HER and OER, respectively, demonstrating their potential in practical applications for water splitting.
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