Enhanced photocatalytic H2 generation on cadmium sulfide nanorods with cobalt hydroxide as cocatalyst and insights into their photogenerated charge transfer properties

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 13406-13412

  Zhang, Li J ^a   Zheng, Rui ^a   Li, Shuo ^a   Liu, Bing K ^a   Wang, De J ^a,c   Wang, Ling L ^b   Xie, Teng F ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jilin University   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CdS; photogenerated charge transfer; surface photocurrent; surface photovoltage

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; CHARGE TRANSFER; COBALT METALLOGRAPHY; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; PRECIOUS METALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CADMIUM SULFIDE NANOROD; ELECTROCHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOMETER PARTICLES; PHOTOCATALYTIC H2 EVOLUTION; PHOTOGENERATED CHARGE; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; SURFACE PHOTOVOLTAGES;

COBALT COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84906807335     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am501216b     Document Type: Article

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