Recently, molybdenum (Mo)-based catalysts
have been proved to be
effective NRR catalysts due to the high affinity of nitrogen to Mo.
The design of a heterostructure and the introduction of defects, such
as vacancies and heteroatom doping, are effective means to regulate
the microstructure of catalysts and further improve their electrocatalytic
N2 into NH3 performance. In this paper, VS-Fe-doped 1T/2H mixed-phase MoS2/C (VS means sulfur vacancies) heterostructure sphere-like nanoflowers
with rich sulfur vacancies are prepared through a pectin-assisted
hydrothermal reaction, followed by calcination and treatment with
NaBH4 solution. VS-Fe-MoS2/C exhibits
good electrocatalytic NRR performance with a high ammonia yield rate
of 17.8 ± 0.7 μg h–1 mg–1 at −0.5 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode (vs RHE) and a Faraday efficiency (FE) of 9.2% at −0.3 V (vs RHE) under ambient conditions. Introducing sulfur vacancies,
iron doping, and preparing 2H-phase MoS2 have greatly improved
the performance of electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction to ammonia.
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