A synergetic effect between a single Cu site and S vacancy on an MoS2 basal plane for methanol synthesis from syngas

Compared to MoS₂(001), the synergetic effect between the single Cu site and S vacancy on Cu/MoS₂(001) destabilizes O, which not only increases the CO hydrogenation rate by 5 orders of magnitude, but leads to the selectivity switch from CH₄to CH₃OH.