Hydrogen Evolution: Au NPs@MoS₂ Sub-Micrometer Sphere-ZnO Nanorod Hybrid Structures for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution with Excellent Stability (Small 41/2016)

Au@MoS2-ZnO hybrid photocatalysts are successfully synthesized by a facile process combining the hydrothermal method and seed-growth method, as presented by X. Li, B. Q. Wei, and co-workers on page 5692. Such photocatalysts exhibit an excellent hydrogen gas evolution (3737.4 μmol g−1) with improved stability (91.9% of activity remaining) after a long-duration test (32 h), which is one of the highest photocatalytic activities to date among the MoS2 based photocatalysts.