Defect Engineering and Phase Junction Architecture of Wide-Bandgap ZnS for Conflicting Visible Light Activity in Photocatalytic H2 Evolution

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 25, 2015, Pages 13915-13924

  Fang, Zhibin ^a   Weng, Sunxian ^a   Ye, Xinxin ^a   Feng, Wenhui ^a   Zheng, Zuyang ^a   Lu, Meiliang ^a   Lin, Sen ^a   Fu, Xianzhi ^a   Liu, Ping ^a  

^a FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

first principle DFT; phase junction; sulfur vacancy; visible light photocatalysis; ZnS

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CHARGE TRANSFER; DEFECTS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY; ENERGY GAP; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SULFUR; TRANSITION METALS; VACANCIES; ZINC SULFIDE;

FIRST PRINCIPLES; PHASE JUNCTION; SULFUR VACANCIES; VISIBLE-LIGHT PHOTOCATALYSIS; ZNS;

LIGHT;

EID: 84934784314     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b02641     Document Type: Article

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