The remarkable activity and stability of a dye-sensitized single molecular layer MoS2 ensemble for photocatalytic hydrogen production

Tiantian Jia; Molly M J Li; Lin Ye; Sam Wiseman; Guoliang Liu; Jin Qu; Keizo Nakagawa; S C Edman Tsang

doi:10.1039/c5cc03871e

The remarkable activity and stability of a dye-sensitized single molecular layer MoS2 ensemble for photocatalytic hydrogen production

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Sep 11;51(70):13496-9. doi: 10.1039/c5cc03871e.

Authors

Tiantian Jia¹, Molly M J Li, Lin Ye, Sam Wiseman, Guoliang Liu, Jin Qu, Keizo Nakagawa, S C Edman Tsang

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QR, UK. edman.tsang@chem.ox.ac.uk.

PMID: 26214060
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc03871e

Abstract

Single layer MoS2 synthesized by exfoliation with Li is demonstrated to take up the dye molecule, Eosin Y, with strong binding affinity via sulfur vacancies. This dye-sensitized single layer MoS2 ensemble exhibits remarkable activity and stability for photocatalytic hydrogen production from water.