Plasmon‐Enhanced Photoelectrical Hydrogen Evolution on Monolayer MoS2 Decorated Cu1.75S‐Au Nanocrystals

Hydrogen production from water splitting through an efficient photoelectrochemical route requires photoinduced electron transfer from light harvesters to efficient electrocatalysts. Here, the plasmon‐enhanced photoelectrical nanocatalysts (NCs) have been successfully developed by coating a monolayer MoS 2 on the Cu 1.75 S‐Au hetero‐nanoparticle for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). The plasmonic NCs dramatically improve the HER, leading to 29.5‐fold increase of current under 650 nm excitation (1.0 W cm −2 ). These NCs generate an exceptionally high current density of 200 mA cm −2 at overpotential of 182.8 mV with a Tafel slope of 39 mV per decade and excellent stability, which is better than or comparable to the Pt‐free catalysts with carbon rod as counter electrode. The enhanced HER performance can be attributed to the significantly improved broad light absorption (400–3000 nm), more efficient charge separation and abundant active edge sites of monolayer MoS 2 . The studies may provide a facile strategy for the fabrication of efficient plasmon‐enhanced photoelectrical NCs for HER.