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The removal of heavy metal contaminants from water is important for public health, and recently many two-dimensional (2D) materials with high specific surface areas are being studied as promising new active components in water purification. In particular, 2D MoS 2  nanosheets have been used for the removal of various heavy metals, but usually in either in complex geometries and composites, or in the chemically exfoliated metallic 1T-MoS 2  phase. However, the interaction of heavy metals dissolved in water with unmodified semiconducting 2H-MoS 2  is not well studied. In this paper, we report a detailed fundamental investigation of how Pb 2+  ions interact with 2H-MoS 2 . We observe small solid clusters that form on the MoS 2  surfaces after exposing them to Pb(NO 3 ) 2  aqueous solutions as shown by atomic force microscopy and transmission electron microscopy, and for liquid phase exfoliated MoS 2  we observe the nanosheets precipitating out of dispersion along with insoluble solid granules. We use a combination of x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction to identify these solid clusters and granules as primarily PbSO 4  with some PbMoO 4 . We put forth an interaction mechanism that involves MoS 2  defects acting as initiation sites for the partial dissolution in aqueous oxygenated conditions which produces MoO 4 2−  and SO 4 2−  ions to form the solids with Pb 2+ . These results are an important contribution to our fundamental understanding of how MoS 2  interacts with metal ions and will influence further efforts to exploit MoS 2  for water remediation applications.

Interaction of Pb2+ ions in water with two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide

Interaction of Pb²⁺ ions in water with two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide