The New Energy Storage and Conversion Nanamaterials Center under the State Key Lab for Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment at School of Electrical Engineering made a progress in synthesizing new one-dimensional nanotube hybrids. The paper In Situ Synthesis of Carbon Nanotube Hybrids with Alternate MoC and MoS2 to Enhance the Electrochemical Activities of MoS2 was published in the well known nanomaterials journal Nano Letters (the impact factor is 13.592).

The first author of the paper is the PhD student Li Xin of the School of Electrical Engineering. The correspondent author is professor Niu Chunming, the director of the center. The co-supervisor is associate professor Zhang Jinying. XJTU is the only authoring unit.

The research produced nanotube hybrids with alternate MoC and MoS2 through in-situ high-temperature carbonation of molybdenum sulfide (MoS3); the hybrids dramatically enhance the electrochemical activities of MoC and MoS2 and have broad applications in electrocatalytic hydrogenization and petroleum desulfurization for the reason that the hybrids greatly improve the MoS3’s performance in lithium storage.

For the original paper, please visithttp://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b01579