Center for Relativistic Laser Science

2018 MRS

Nanostructured metal chalcogenides have received a great attention in a variety of applications, which includes fuel cells, solar cells, supercapacitors, thermoelectric devices and sensors. Especially, mixed metal chalcogenides show a great promise due to their energy tunability and catalytic robustness under harsh operating condition. The template-mediated growth of nanoparticles is a very efficient method to synthesize well-defined colloidal nanocrystals because the template can be used as a platform where other materials are deposited by reduction or template components are released out by dissolution of template itself. In this research, we report a facile synthesis of mixed metal chalcogenides with well-defined structure prepared by template-mediated method toward hydrogen evolution reaction.