Noble metal-free reduced graphene oxide-Zn xCd 1-xS nanocomposite with enhanced solar photocatalytic H 2-production performance

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4584-4589

  Zhang, Jun ^a,b   Yu, Jiaguo ^a   Jaroniec, Mietek ^c   Gong, Jian Ru ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphene; photocatalytic hydrogen production; solar light driven; Zn xCd 1 xS solid solution

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE METALS; ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHETIC SYSTEMS; CO CATALYSTS; COCATALYST; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PHOTOCATALYTIC HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; PRODUCTION ACTIVITY; PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN; PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE; PRODUCTION RATES; REACTION CONDITIONS; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; REDUCTION STRATEGY; SOLAR-LIGHT-DRIVEN; VISIBLE LIGHT; WATER SPLITTING;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; GRAPHENE; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; METALS; NANOCOMPOSITES; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PLATINUM; PRECIOUS METALS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SOLID SOLUTIONS; ZINC;

ZINC SULFIDE;

GRAPHITE; HYDROGEN; INERT GAS; NANOMATERIAL; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE; ZINC DERIVATIVE; ZINC SELENIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

CATALYSIS; GRAPHITE; HYDROGEN; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; NOBLE GASES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84866312176     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl301831h     Document Type: Article

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