In recent years, some two-dimensional nanomaterials, such as graphene and molybdenum disulfide, cause extensive interests from scientists due to their excellent performances. In this paper, MoS2was synthesized by a simple hydrothermal method without any assisted reagents, the MoS2nanosheets display relatively high photocatalytic activity of p-nitrophenol degradation under visible light illumination (λ>420 nm). Some experimental reaction conditions were optimized, the highest degradation efficiency of 55.0% is obtained within 120 min at initial 10.0 mg L−1p-n...