Assembling metallic 1T-MoS2 nanosheets with inorganic-ligand stabilized quantum dots for exceptional solar hydrogen evolution

Abstract

Due to their enhanced light harvesting, favored interfacial charge transfer and excellent proton reduction activity, hybrid photocatalysts of metallic 1T-MoS₂ nanosheets and inorganic-ligand stabilized CdSe/ZnS QDs obtained via a self-assembly approach can produce H₂ gas with a rate of ∼155 ± 3.5 μmol h⁻¹ mg⁻¹ under visible-light irradiation (λ = 410 nm), the most exceptional performance of solar H₂ evolution using MoS₂ as a cocatalyst known to date.