Molybdenum disulfide（MoS2） has attracted extensive attention as an alternative to replace noble electrocatalysts in the hydrogen evolution reaction（HER）. Here, we highlight an efficient and straightforward ball milling method,using nanoscale Cu powders as reductant to reduce MoS2 engineering S-vacancies into MoS2 surfaces, to fabricate a defectrich MoS2material（DR-MoS2）. The micron-sized DR-MoS2 catalysts exhibit significantly enhanced catalytic activity for HER with an overpotential（at 10 mA cm^-2） of 176 m V in acidic media and 189 m V in basic media, surpassing most of Mo-based catalysts previously reported, especially in basic solution. Meanwhile stability tests confirm the outstanding durability of DR-MoS2 catalysts in both acid and basic electrolytes. This work not only opens a new pathway to implant defects to MoS2, but also provides low-cost alternative for efficient electrocatalytic production of hydrogen in both alkaline and acidic environments.
The coupling interaction between an individual optical emitter and the propagating surface plasmon polaritons in a graphene microribbon （GMR） waveguide is investigated by numerical calculations, where the emitter is situated above the GMR or in the same plane of the GMR, The results reveal a multimode coupling mechanism for the strong interaction between the emitter and the propagating plasmonic waves in graphene. When the emitter is situated in the same plane of the GMR, the decay rate from the emitter to the surface plasmon polaritons increases more than 10 times compared with that in the case with the emitter above the GMR.
Recently, two-dimensional (2D) layered semiconducting materials have been considered as promising channel materials to construct aggressively-scaled transistors owing to their excellent electrostatics and remained high carrier mobility even at atomic thickness (1,2)Among all of the emerging 2D semiconductors.
