The desire for sustainable and clean energy future continues to be the concern of the scientific community. Researchers are incessantly targeting the development of scalable and abundant electro- or photo-catalysts for water splitting. Owing to their suitable band-gap and excellent stability, an enormous amount of transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with hierarchical nanostructures have been extensively explored. Herein, we present an overview of the recent research progresses in the design, characterization and applications of the TMD-based electro- or photo-catalysts for hydrogen and oxygen evolution. Emphasis is given to the layered and pyrite-phase structured TMDs encompassing semiconducting and metallic nanomaterials. Illustrative results and the future prospects are pointed out. This review will provide the readers with insight into the state-of-the-art research progresses in TMD based nanomaterials for water splitting.
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Wang, F., Shifa, T. A., Zhan, X., Huang, Y., Liu, K., Cheng, Z., … He, J. (2015, December 21). Recent advances in transition-metal dichalcogenide based nanomaterials for water splitting. Nanoscale. Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5nr06718a
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