Nickel sulfides supported by carbon spheres as efficient catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction

Ni3S2 and NiS supported on carbon spheres are successfully synthesized by a facile hydrothermal method. And then a series of physical characterizations included XRD (X-ray diffraction), EDS (energy dispersive spectroscopy), FESEM (field emission scanning electron microscopy) and XPS (X-ray photo-electron spectroscopy) were used to analyze the samples. XRD was used to confirm that Ni3S2 and NiS were successfully fabricated. FESEM indicated that...