Stabilizing and Improving Solar H2 Generation from Zn0.5Cd0.5S Nanorods@MoS2/RGO Hybrids via Dual Charge Transfer Pathway

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2928-2934

  Guo, Shuai Nan ^a   Min, Yu Lin ^a   Fan, Jin Chen ^a   Xu, Qun Jie ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRIC POWER   (China)

Author keywords

charge transfer; hydrogen evolution; MoS2 RGO; photoreduction; Zn0.5Cd0.5S nanorods

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; NANORODS; ZINC;

COMPONENT PROPORTION; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; INTERFACIAL CONTACT; INTERFACIAL STRUCTURES; LONG TIME STABILITIES; PHOTO-REDUCTION; PRODUCTION ACTIVITY; SIMULTANEOUS REDUCTION;

MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84957990936     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b06009     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Chen, X.; Shen, S.; Guo, L.; Mao, S. S. Semiconductor-based Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation Chem. Rev. 2010, 110, 6503-6570 10.1021/cr1001645
2. Abe, R. Recent Progress on Photocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting under Visible Light Irradiation J. Photochem. Photobiol., C 2010, 11, 179-209 10.1016/j.jphotochemrev.2011.02.003
3. Kim, H. G.; Hwang, D. W.; Lee, J. S. An Undoped, Single-Phase Oxide Photocatalyst Working under Visible Light J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 8912-8913 10.1021/ja049676a
4. Li, H. J.; Zhou, Y.; Tu, W. G.; Ye, J. H.; Zou, Z. G. State-of-the-Art Progress in Diverse Heterostructured Photocatalysts toward Promoting Photocatalytic Performance Adv. Funct. Mater. 2015, 25, 998-1013 10.1002/adfm.201401636
5. Andrade, G. R. S.; Nascimento, C. C.; Neves, E. C.; Barbosa, C. D. A. E.; Costa, L. P.; Barreto, L. S.; Gimenez, I. F. One-step Preparation of CdS Nanocrystals Supported on Thiolated Silica-Gel Matrix and Evaluation of Photocatalytic Performance J. Hazard. Mater. 2012, 203-204, 151-157 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.11.086
6. 2) J. Hazard. Mater. 2011, 195, 132-138 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.08.049
7. Bao, N.; Shen, L.; Takata, T.; Domen, K.; Gupta, A.; Yanagisawa, K.; Grimes, C. A. Facile Cd-thiourea Complex Thermolysis Synthesis of Phase-controlled CdS Nanocrystals for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production under Visible Light J. Phys. Chem. C 2007, 111, 17527-17534 10.1021/jp076566s
8. Luo, M.; Liu, Y.; Hu, J. C.; Liu, H.; Li, J. L. One-Pot Synthesis of CdS and Ni-Doped CdS Hollow Spheres with Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity and Durability ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2012, 4, 1813-1821 10.1021/am3000903
9. Kim, D. S.; Cho, Y. J.; Park, J.; Yoon, J. B.; Jo, Y. H.; Jung, M. H. (Mn, Zn) Co-Doped CdS Nanowires J. Phys. Chem. C 2007, 111, 10861-10868 10.1021/jp072364k
10. Chandramohan, S.; Kanjilal, A.; Sarangi, S. N.; Majumder, S.; Sathyamoorthy, R.; Hong, C. H.; Som, T. Effect of Substrate Temperature on Implantation Doping of Co in CdS Nanocrystalline Thin Films Nanoscale 2010, 2, 1155-1159 10.1039/c0nr00123f
11. Hu, Y.; Gao, X. H.; Yu, L.; Wang, Y. L.; Ning, J. Q.; Xu, S. J.; Lou, X. W. Carbon-coated CdS Petalous Nanostructures with Enhanced Photostability and Photocatalytic Activity Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 5636-5639 10.1002/anie.201301709
12. 2 Evolution J. Phys. Chem. C 2013, 117, 11584-11591 10.1021/jp400010z
13. Chen, W. T.; Yang, T. T.; Hsu, Y. J. Au-CdS Core-Shell Nanocrystals with Controllable Shell Thickness and Photoinduced Charge Separation Property Chem. Mater. 2008, 20, 7204-7206 10.1021/cm802074j
14. 2S@ZnS Core-Shell Heterostructures for Enhanced Photocatalytic Performance J. Phys. Chem. C 2015, 119, 1667-1675 10.1021/jp510413b
15. 1.8S Hollow Spheres with Interdispersed Lattices for Enhanced Visible Light Solar Hydrogen Generation Chem.-Eur. J. 2014, 20, 11505-11510 10.1002/chem.201402491
16. Tan, C. F.; Ong, W. L.; Ho, G. W. Self-biased Hybrid Piezoelectric-photoelectrochemical Cell with Photocatalytic Functionalities ACS Nano 2015, 9, 7661-7670 10.1021/acsnano.5b03075
17. xS Solid Solution Green Chem. 2010, 12, 1611-1614 10.1039/c0gc00236d
18. xS Solid Solution J. Phys. Chem. C 2011, 115, 19741-19748 10.1021/jp204799q
19. 0.2)S Nanorods Electrochem. Commun. 2009, 11, 1174-1178 10.1016/j.elecom.2009.03.041
20. 2-Production Activity ACS Catal. 2013, 3, 882-889 10.1021/cs4000975
21. 2 Electrocatalyst onto Zinc Cadmium Sulphide Nanoparticle Surfaces to Construct an Efficient Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Generation Nanoscale 2013, 5, 1479-1482 10.1039/c2nr34037b
22. 2-Production Performance Nano Lett. 2012, 12, 4584-4589 10.1021/nl301831h
23. 2 Evolution under Visible Light Irradiation ACS Nano 2014, 8, 7078-7087 10.1021/nn5019945
24. 2 Nanoparticles J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 6575-6578 10.1021/ja302846n
25. 2 Ternary Nanojunction with Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Activity Adv. Mater. 2013, 25, 6291-6297 10.1002/adma.201303116
26. Meng, F. K.; Li, J. T.; Cushing, S. K.; Zhi, M. J.; Wu, N. Q. Solar Hydrogen Generation by Nanoscale p-n Junction of p-type Molybdenum Disulfide/n-type Nitrogen-doped Reduced Graphene Oxide J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 10286-10289 10.1021/ja404851s
27. 2 Production Activity of Multiarmed CdS Nanorods ChemCatChem 2015, 7, 943-951 10.1002/cctc.201403062
28. 2 Nanocrystal Ensemble for Cooperative Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production from Water Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 1185-1188 10.1039/C3CC47301E
29. 2 Evolution Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 11004-11007 10.1039/C4CC04653F
30. 2/graphene as Noble-metal-free Dual Co-catalysts RSC Adv. 2015, 5, 47314-47318 10.1039/C5RA08149A
31. 2 onto a Composite of Reduced Graphene Oxide and CdS for Synergic Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 19842-19848 10.1021/jp5054474
32. Zhang, K.; Kim, W. J.; Ma, M.; Shi, X. J.; Park, J. H. Tuning the Charge Transfer Route by p-n Junction Catalysts Embedded with CdS Nanorods for Simultaneous Efficient Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution J. Mater. Chem. A 2015, 3, 4803-4810 10.1039/C4TA05571C
33. 2-graphene Nanocomposites. UV-assisted Photocatalytic Reduction of Graphene Oxide ACS Nano 2008, 2, 1487-1491 10.1021/nn800251f
34. Min, Y. L.; He, G. Q.; Xu, Q. J.; Chen, Y. C. UV Light Assisted Synthesis of Ternary Reduced Graphene Oxide Hybrid Materials and Their Photocatalytic Performance Dalton Trans. 2013, 42, 12284-12292 10.1039/c3dt51498f
35. 2 Thin Film for Photoinactivation of Bacteria in Solar Light Irradiation J. Phys. Chem. C 2009, 113, 20214-20220 10.1021/jp906325q
36. 4 photocatalyst for an enhanced photoelectrochemical water splitting J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2010, 1, 2607-2612 10.1021/jz100978u
37. 1-xS Nanorods and Their Composite with RGO for High-performance Visible-light Photocatalysis RSC Adv. 2015, 5, 27829-27836 10.1039/C5RA01846C
38. 0.5S Coupled with Graphene Composite for Decolorizating Organic Dyes J. Alloys Compd. 2014, 609, 46-53 10.1016/j.jallcom.2014.04.143
39. 4 Composite and Its Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production under Visible-light Irradiation Dalton Trans. 2012, 41, 1179-1186 10.1039/C1DT11308A
40. Gao, P.; Liu, J.; Sun, D. D.; Ng, W. Graphene Oxide-CdS Composite with High Photocatalytic Degradation and Disinfection Activities under Visible Light Irradiation J. Hazard. Mater. 2013, 250-251, 412-420 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2013.02.003
41. 2 Nanotube Array for Highly Stable Photocatalytic Activity Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2014, 16, 25321-25329 10.1039/C4CP04057K
42. 0.5S Porous Nanosheets/RGO Composites as Highly Stable and Efficient Photoelectrocatalysts for Visible-light-driven Water Splitting Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 2014, 39, 702-710 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2013.10.118
43. Akhavan, O. Graphene Nanomesh by ZnO Nanorod Photocatalysts ACS Nano 2010, 4, 4174-4180 10.1021/nn1007429
44. xS Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Production by Water Splitting Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 2006, 31, 2018-2024 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2006.02.003
45. 2/CdS (n ≥ 1) Under Visible Light Adv. Energy. Mater. 2015, 5, 1402279 10.1002/aenm.201402279
46. 2 Nanowires for Hydrogen Evolution: A Functional Design for Electrocatalytic Materials Nano Lett. 2011, 11, 4168-4175 10.1021/nl2020476
47. Zhang, K.; Kim, H. J.; Lee, J. T.; Chang, G. W.; Shi, X. J.; Kim, W. J.; Ma, M.; Kong, K. J.; Choi, J. M.; Song, M. S.; Park, J. H. Unconventional Pore and Defect Generation in Molybdenum Disulfide: Application in High-Rate Lithium-Ion Batteries and the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction ChemSusChem 2014, 7, 2489-2495 10.1002/cssc.201402372