Synergistic zinc doping and defect engineering toward MoS2 nanosheet arrays for highly efficient electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution

Herein, we have demonstrated synergistic zinc doping and defect engineering toward MoS2 nanosheet arrays assembled on carbon cloth (CC) by a one-pot hydrothermal approach for the first time, which are employed directly as a cathode for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). In our strategy, simultaneously doping sufficient Zn atoms and introducing a defect-rich structure into a MoS2 nanosheet can synergistically increase active sites. Additionally, the assembly of such nanosheets on CC can achieve lower charge-transfer resistance for the highly efficient HER.