Synthesis of Porous Molybdenum Disulfide Materials with High Specific Surface Area Using Sodium Chloride as the Template

One novel, simple and convenient synthetic approach has been proposed to prepare the porous molybdenum disulfide materials by utilizing ammonium tetrathiomolybdate as the precursor and sodium chloride as the template. The as-synthesized products were characterized by X-ray powder Diffraction (XRD), Low-temperature N-2 Adsorption (BET method), and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). The characterization results reveal that the as-synthesized molybdenum disulfide material has high specific surface area (253.5 m(2)/g).