Doping and Phase Engineering Enhanced Ru‐Doped 1T‐MoS2 Electrocatalyst for Industrial Hydrogen Evolution

1T‐MoS 2 possesses high conductivity and intrinsic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalytic activity with much lower price than Pt‐based catalysts. However, 1T‐MoS 2 is metastable, which complicates its synthesis. In this study, doping and phase engineering are used to grow 1T‐MoS 2 nanosheets on carbon cloth (CC) by a hydrothermal method. Then, Ru is doped into the 1T‐MoS 2 lattice by a secondary hydrothermal method to prepare the Ru/1T‐MoS 2 @CC electrocatalyst, as well as a self‐supporting electrode. Under mild hydrothermal conditions, Ru doping can increase the electron density of states in the direction perpendicular to the basal plane of 1T‐MoS 2 , and thus enhances its HER activity and stability. The Ru/1T‐MoS 2 @CC catalyst exhibits an excellent full‐pH electrocatalytic HER performance at large current densities: The HER overpotentials are 54 mV@10 mA cm −2 and 282 mV@500 mA cm −2 in 1 M KOH, and the HER overpotentials are 87 mV@10 mA cm −2 and 308 mV@200 mA cm −2 in 0.5 M H 2 SO 4 . In addition, the Ru/1T‐MoS 2 @CC catalyst exhibits long‐term stabilities in both acidic and alkaline solutions. This study provides a new strategy for the design of efficient and economical HER electrocatalysts, and will promote the application of hydrogen energy conversions.