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This unique hybrid morphology results from the optimized experimental conditions involving bath sonication followed by ultrasound probe sonication. We show that such heterodimensional hybrid materials could easily be extracted from the solvent as precipitates when post-treated with less polar volatile solvents such as chloroform. Such tailored MoS2 nanostructures, when directly used as electrodes for hydrogen evolution reaction, showed excellent electrocatalytic activity with low overpotential. 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