• 文献标题:   Ultrathin 1T-MoS2 Nanoplates Induced by Quaternary Ammonium-Type Ionic Liquids on Polypyrrole/Graphene Oxide Nanosheets and Its Irreversible Crystal Phase Transition During Electrocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   MAO H, FU YL, YANG HR, DENG ZZ, SUN Y, LIU DL, WU Q, MA TY, SONG XM
  • 作者关键词:   nbutyl triethyl ammonium bromide btab, polypyrrole/graphene oxide ppy/go, 1tmos2, nitrogen reduction reaction nrr, irreversible crystal phase transition
  • 出版物名称:   ACS APPLIED MATERIALS INTERFACES
  • ISSN:   1944-8244 EI 1944-8252
  • 通讯作者地址:   Liaoning Univ
  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsami.0c05204
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

Ultrathin nanoplates of metastable 1T-MoS2 have been successfully stabilized and uniformly distributed on the surface of n-butyl triethyl ammonium bromide functionalized polypyrrole/graphene oxide (BTAB/PPy/GO) by a very simple hydrothermal method. BTAB as a typical kind of quaternary ammonium-type ionic liquids (ILs) played a crucial role in the formation of the obtained 1T-MoS2/BTAB/PPy/GO. It was covalently linked with PPy/GO and arranged in a highly ordered order at the solid-liquid interface of PPy/GO and H2O due to Coulombic interactions and other intermolecular interactions, which would induce and stabilize ultrathin 1T-MoS2 nanoplates by morphosynthesis. The good electrocatalytic activity toward nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) with strong durability and good stability can be achieved by 1T-MoS2/BTAB/PPy/GO due to their excellent inorganic/organic hierarchical lamellar micro-/nanostructures. Especially, after the long-term electrocatalysis for NRR at a negative potential, metastable 1T-MoS2 as the catalytic center undergoes two types of irreversible crystal phase transition, which was converted to 1T-MoS2 and Mo2N, caused by the competitive hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) process and the electrochemical reaction between the electroactive 1T-MoS2 and N-2, respectively. The new N-Mo bonding prevents Mo atoms from binding to other N atoms in N-2, resulting in the deactivation of the electrocatalysts to NRR after being used for 18 h. Even so, quaternary ammonium-type ILs would induce the crystal structures of transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), which might provide a new thought for the reasonable design of electrocatalysts based on TMDCs for electrocatalysis.