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Single crystalline quaternary sulfide nanobelts for efficient solar-to-hydrogen conversion.


ABSTRACT: Although solar-driven water splitting on semiconductor photocatalysts is an attractive route for hydrogen generation, there is a lack of excellent photocatalysts with high visible light activity. Due to their tunable bandgaps suitable for superior visible-light absorption, copper-based quaternary sulfides have been the important candidates. Here, we first assessed the preferred facet of wurtzite Cu-Zn-In-S for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction using the relevant Gibbs free energies determined by first principle calculation. We then developed a colloidal method to synthesize single crystalline wurtzite Cu-Zn-In-S nanobelts (NBs) exposing (0001) facet with the lowest reaction Gibbs energy, as well as Cu-Zn-Ga-S NBs exposing (0001) facet. The obtained single crystalline Cu-Zn-In-S and Cu-Zn-Ga-S NBs exhibit superior hydrogen production activities under visible-light irradiation, which is composition-dependent. Our protocol represents an alternative surface engineering approach to realize efficient solar-to-chemical conversion of single crystalline copper-based multinary chalcogenides.

SUBMITTER: Wu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7567062 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Single crystalline quaternary sulfide nanobelts for efficient solar-to-hydrogen conversion.

Wu Liang L   Wang Qian Q   Zhuang Tao-Tao TT   Li Yi Y   Zhang Guozhen G   Liu Guo-Qiang GQ   Fan Feng-Jia FJ   Shi Lei L   Yu Shu-Hong SH  

Nature communications 20201015 1


Although solar-driven water splitting on semiconductor photocatalysts is an attractive route for hydrogen generation, there is a lack of excellent photocatalysts with high visible light activity. Due to their tunable bandgaps suitable for superior visible-light absorption, copper-based quaternary sulfides have been the important candidates. Here, we first assessed the preferred facet of wurtzite Cu-Zn-In-S for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction using the relevant Gibbs free energies dete  ...[more]

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