Synthesis and characterization of hollow MoS2 microspheres grown from MoO3 precursors

Hydrothermal assisted morphology designed MoS 2 material as alternative cathode catalyst for PEM electrolyser application

“…Moreover, it can be clearly seen that few of the damaged capsule walls indicates that capsules are made up of hollow inner space. It is worth to mention here that such formation of MoS 2 hollow spheres have been reported in literature by employing organic solvent based sonochemical [34], Cyanex 301 based hydrothermal process [35] as well as sodium fluoride along with tetrabutyl ammonium bromide based hydrothermal method [36] where all the methods involves highly toxic and environmentally concerned materials. However, in this study the employed hydrothermal method involves environmental benign precursors along with water as the medium to obtain MoS 2 material in uniformly dispersed nano-capsule morphology.…”

“…Moreover, in our method, thioacetamide plays a role of reducing agent and sulphur donor during the whole hydrothermal process, in which thioacetamide releases H 2 S as a sulphide source as well as a reducing agent, resulting in the reduction of MoO 4 2À precursors to MoS 2 . The reaction routes for the synthesis of MoS 2 using thioacetamide could be expressed as follows [40,36]: …”

Transforming MoO3 macrorods into bismuth molybdate nanoplates via the surfactant-assisted hydrothermal method

“…In order to obtain particular morphologies and structures, there are many researchers prepared the controllable nanostructured materials using precise precursors [17][18][19][20][21][22]. Amal et al [17] have reported a simple way to transform the WO 3 ·2H 2 O films into a ternary oxide electrode of Bi 2 WO 6 without the need for particulate Bi 2 WO 6 as an intermediate.…”

“…Li et al [19] reported a low temperature hydrothermal process for the preparation of MoS 2 microspheres using MoO 3 macrobelts as precursors. In our previous work, several typical Bi-based photocatalysts (Bi 2 SiO 5 , BiVO 4 , Bi 2 WO 6 ) were designed to obtained by facile synthetic process using novel corresponding precursors [21][22].…”

A facile method to prepare MoS2 with nanolameller-like morphology

“…Various methods have been reported on the synthesis of nanosized MoS 2 [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24], including the gas-phase reaction of MoO 3 and H 2 S [10][11][12], thermal decomposition of ammonium thiomolybdate [13,14], and the solid-state reaction of MoCl 5 and Na 2 S [15]. Sonochemistry, pulsed laser deposition, mechanochemical method, and hydrothermal reactions have also been developed to prepare nanosized MoS 2 at low temperature [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25].…”