Spontaneous doping of the basal plane of MoS₂ single layers through oxygen substitution under ambient conditions

Spontaneous doping of the basal plane of MoS2 single layers through oxygen substitution under ambient conditionsSpontaneous doping of the basal plane of MoS₂ single layers through oxygen substitution under ambient conditions, Published online: 17 September 2018; doi:10.1038/s41557-018-0136-2MoS2 single layers spontaneously undergo a slow oxygen substitution reaction under ambient conditions giving rise to solid-solution-type 2D molybdenum oxy-sulfide crystals. The oxygen substitution sites of the 2D MoS2−xOx crystals act as efficient single-atom catalytic centres for the hydrogen evolution reaction.

Published in: "Nature Chemistry (Advanced Online Publication)".