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Surface curvature-confined strategy to ultrasmall nickel-molybdenum sulfide nanoflakes for highly efficient deep hydrodesulfurization

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Size-controlled synthesis of two-dimensional (2D) catalysts with low stacking numbers and small nanoflake lengths is crucial for promoting the catalytic performance in diverse heterogeneous catalysis. Herein, we report a facile and general “surface curvature-confined synthesis” strategy to modulate the slab lengths and stacking numbers of 2D transition metal sulfides by controlling the strain induced by different surface curvature of supports. An efficient NiMo sulfide with shorter slab length (average 3.71 nm), less stacking number (1–2 layers) and more edge active sites is synthesized onto ZSM-5 zeolites with the average size of 100 nm, which shows superior kHDS value of dibenzothiophene (14.05 × 10−7 mol/(g·s)), enhanced stability up to 80 h, and high direct desulfurization selectivity (> 95%). This design concept is also proved to be generally applicable to modulate the slab lengths and stacking numbers of other 2D catalysts such as MoS2 and WS2 nanoflakes, which shows great potentials for developing more ultrasmall 2D catalysts with controlled sizes and excellent catalytic activities.

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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2018YFE0201704), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21631004, 21801069, 21571054, and 21901064), the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities (Nos. 3072019CFJ1502 and RCYJTD201801), the University Program for Young Scholars with Creative Talents in Heilongjiang Province (No. UNPYSCT-2018013), Heilongjiang Provincial Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. LBH-Z18232) and the Heilongjiang University Excellent Youth Foundation.

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Kang, X., Liu, J., Tian, C. et al. Surface curvature-confined strategy to ultrasmall nickel-molybdenum sulfide nanoflakes for highly efficient deep hydrodesulfurization. Nano Res. 13, 882–890 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-2716-x

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