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    杨希川

    • 研究员     博士生导师   硕士生导师
    • 性别:男
    • 毕业院校:大连理工大学
    • 学位:博士
    • 所在单位:化工学院
    • 电子邮箱:yangxc@dlut.edu.cn

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    Graphene-mediated highly-dispersed MoS2 nanosheets with enhanced triiodide reduction activity for dye-sensitized solar cells

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    论文类型:期刊论文

    发表时间:2016-04-01

    发表刊物:CARBON

    收录刊物:SCIE、EI

    卷号:100

    页面范围:474-483

    ISSN号:0008-6223

    摘要:Novel composites made of two dimensional (2D) MoS2 nanosheets and graphene (G) have been fabricated by a combined approach of chemical vapor deposition and hydrothermal technique. The G film helps to mediate the growth and dispersion of MoS2 nanosheets, of which the unique role of G in the MoS2 growth is revealed by density functional theory study. The results show that the hexagonal lattice carbon of the G film can easily interact with sulfur species derived from reaction precursors, which favors the uniform growth of 2D MoS2. The unique function of the G film demonstrated here can be extended to other carbon substrates for growing 2D MoS2 nanosheets. The G-MoS2 composites consisting of two types of 2D materials are tested as the binder-free counter electrodes (CEs) for dye-sensitized solar cells, showing a high power conversion efficiency of 7.1% that is comparable to the expensive Pt CEs. The 2D G film in the hybrids has two functions: the active sites for dispersing the electrochemically active MoS2 crystals and the high electrical conducting matrix for fast charge transfer. This synergistic effect may help to shed a light on the functionalization of other inorganic materials to G for advanced energy applications. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.