Growth, structure and stability of sputter-deposited MoS₂ thin films

• Reinhard Kaindl,
• Bernhard C. Bayer,
• Roland Resel,
• Thomas Müller,
• Viera Skakalova,
• Gerlinde Habler,
• Rainer Abart,
• Alexey S. Cherevan,
• Dominik Eder,
• Maxime Blatter,
• Fabian Fischer,
• Jannik C. Meyer,
• Dmitry K. Polyushkin and
• Wolfgang Waldhauser

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1115–1126, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.113

• measurements suggest directions for future work on our PVD MoS2 films. Keywords: electrode; hydrogen evolution reaction (HER); magnetron sputter deposition; MoS2; reticulated vitreous carbon (RVC) foam; SiO2/Si substrate; Introduction Molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) is a layered chemical compound comprised of

• electrochemical performance. These assertions are further explored by a second set of electrochemical experiments where reticulated vitreous carbon (RVC) foam electrodes coated with our PVD MoS2 were tested for water electrolysis. RVC foam electrodes are a commercial electrode type for bulk electrolysis

• was done using reticulated vitreous carbon (RVC) foam (ERG aerospace corporation, USA) electrodes with 100 pores per inch, specific surface area ≈65 cm2·cm−3, total projected area 21 cm2, volume 3.84 cm3 and total accessible surface area of 249.6 cm2 [52]. Two 50 and 25 nm thick platinum coatings