Transition metal sulfides meet electrospinning: versatile synthesis, distinct properties and prospective applications

Abstract

We highlight the recent developments in the preparation of electrospun nanomaterials to produce metal sulfides with distinct chemical and physical properties for a broad range of applications.

Ru-Doped CuO/MoS2 Nanostructures as Bifunctional Water-Splitting Electrocatalysts in Alkaline Media

“…Recently, transition-metal sulfides have emerged as promising electrocatalysts due to their high conductivity and facile fabrication processes . Among these, layered transition-metal chalcogenides (LTMDCs), such as 2H-molybdenum sulfide (MoS 2 ), 2H-WS 2 , etc., have attracted considerable attention as alternatives to noble metal-based electrocatalysts in the field of electrochemical water splitting due to their unique structural and electronic properties. , These findings revealed inferior HER activity of bulk MoS 2 due to its large intrinsic resistance and availability of limited active edge sites .…”

Novel Thermal Decomposition Method for the Synthesis of Iron‐doped SnS2 Nanoparticles and Studies on their Peroxidase‐like Activity

“…Metal sulfide nanoparticles are of importance due to their interesting optical, magnetic and electrical properties. [1,2] They are useful in various fields such as energy storage, [3] CO 2 reduction, [4] water splitting, [5] photocatalytic degradation of dyes [6] and catalyst for the synthesis of aromatic aldehydes. [7] The optical, magnetic and electrical properties of metal sulfide nanoparticles can be enhanced by doping and the doped metal sulfide nanoparticles are useful for applications in solar cells, [8] bio-imaging, [9] supercapacitors, [10] hydrogen evolution, [11] photocatalytic reduction [12] and bactericides.…”

“…Metal sulfide nanoparticles are of importance due to their interesting optical, magnetic and electrical properties [1,2] . They are useful in various fields such as energy storage, [3] CO 2 reduction, [4] water splitting, [5] photocatalytic degradation of dyes [6] and catalyst for the synthesis of aromatic aldehydes [7] .…”

A facile chemical synthesis of nanoflake NiS2layers and their photocatalytic activity

“…In the last decades, nanostructured transition metal suldes (NTMSs) have received considerable attention in different elds because of their unique optical, magnetic and catalytic properties. [1][2][3] The properties of these materials are strongly dependent on the dimension, size, and morphologies of fabricated materials, [4][5][6] making these materials very promising for numerous advanced applications such as adsorbents for dye removal, 7 supercapacitors, 8 rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, 9 hydrodesulfurization catalysts, 10 hydrogen evolution reaction, 4,11,12 and catalysts in the degradation of organic dyes. 13 Metal sulde materials such as zinc sulde, 14 manganese sulde, 15 silver sulde, 16 iron sulde, 17 molybdenum sulde, 18 nickel sulde, 12 and copper suldes, have been reported and studied extensively.…”