Construction of amorphous Fe0.95S1.05 nanorods with high electrocatalytic activity for enhanced hydrogen evolution reaction

Amorphous catalysts with abundant defects are attractive for electrocatalytic water splitting. In this work, amorphous Fe0.95S1.05 (a-FeS) nanorods are synthesized by a facile solvothermal method using octylamine solvent and employed as a low-cost and highly active electrocatalyst towards efficient hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). The capped octylamine molecules are responsible for formation of the amorphous structure. The disordered atomic...