A stable inverse opal structure of cadmium chalcogenide for efficient water splitting

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (36) ◽  
pp. 18521-18527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Ren Lu ◽  
Peng-Fei Yin ◽  
Jing Mao ◽  
Meng-Jiao Ning ◽  
Yu-Zhu Zhou ◽  
...  

A highly conductive inverse opal structure consisting of cadmium chalcogenide nanocrystals achieves an unprecedentedly high hydrogen production rate, which originated from excellent light-absorption capacity and charge-separation efficiency.

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (35) ◽  
pp. 14879-14889
Author(s):  
Hua Liu ◽  
Teng Yan ◽  
Zhiliang Jin ◽  
Qingxiang Ma

In the field of catalysis, three critical factors for evaluating catalyst activity include charge separation efficiency, photoabsorption, and surface activity sites.


2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (17) ◽  
pp. 6753-6764 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiannan Li ◽  
Yuguo Xia ◽  
Kangliang Wei ◽  
Xiaotong Ding ◽  
Shun Dong ◽  
...  

Surface polarization promotes the charge separation efficiency of PCN/PANI/BTO ternary heterojunction, resulting in an enhanced visible-light photocatalytic hydrogen production activity.


Author(s):  
Yanan Wang ◽  
Rongrong Shi ◽  
Kai Song ◽  
Chunyang Liu ◽  
Fang He

Exploring and adjusting the transport path of photo-generated carriers is vital to promote charge separation efficiency and charge transfer ability for photocatalytic hydrogen performance of novel semiconductor composites. Herein, this...


Nanophotonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 2077-2088 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daixun Jiang ◽  
Xun Sun ◽  
Xilu Wu ◽  
Shuai Zhang ◽  
Xiaofei Qu ◽  
...  

AbstractThe strategy to improve the photocatalytic removal efficiencies towards organic pollutants is still a challenge for the novel Sillen–Aurivillius perovskite type Bi4NbO8Cl. Herein, we report carbon-supported TiO2/Bi4NbO8Cl (C-TiO2/Bi4NbO8Cl) heterostructures with enhanced charge separation efficiency, which were fabricated via molten-salt flux process. The carbon-supported TiO2 particles were derived from MXene Ti3C2 precursors, and attached on plate-like Bi4NbO8Cl, acting as electron-traps to achieve supressed recombination of photo-induced charges. The improved charge separation confers C-TiO2/Bi4NbO8Cl heterostructures superior photocatalytic performance with 53% higher than pristine Bi4NbO8Cl, towards rhodamine B removal with the help of photo-induced holes. Moreover, the C-TiO2/Bi4NbO8Cl heterostructures can be expanded to deal with other water contaminants, such as methyl orange, ciprofloxacin and 2,4-dichlorophenol with 44, 25 and 13% promotion, respectively, and thus the study offers a series of efficient photocatalysts for water purification.


RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (44) ◽  
pp. 27397-27404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiyi Cai ◽  
Shan Yu ◽  
Wenchao Wan ◽  
Wen Wen ◽  
Ying Zhou

ATiO3 were synthesized from TiO2 nanosheets dominated with {001} facets, PbTiO3 possesses the highest activity as a result of larger light response and higher charge separation efficiency.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Rettenmaier ◽  
Thomas Berger

Mesoporous films and electrodes were prepared from aqueous slurries of isolated anatase TiO2 nanoparticles. The resulting layers were annealed in air at temperatures 100°C ≤ T ≤ 450°C upon preservation of internal surface area, crystallite size and particle size. The impact of processing temperature on charge separation efficiency in nanoparticle electrodes was tracked via photocurrent measurements in the presence of methanol as a hole acceptor. Thermal annealing leads to an increase of the saturated photocurrent and thus of the charge separation efficiency at positive potentials. Furthermore, a shift of capacitive peaks in the cyclic voltammograms of the nanoparticle electrodes points to the modification of the energy of deep traps. Population of these traps triggers recombination possibly due to the action of local electrostatic fields attracting photogenerated holes. Consequently, photocurrents saturate at potentials, at which deep traps are mostly depopulated. Charge separation efficiency was furthermore investigated for nanoparticle films and was tracked via the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide. Our observations evidence an increase of charge separation efficiency upon thermal annealing. The effect of particle consolidation, which we associate with minute atomic rearrangements at particle/particle contacts, is attributed to the energetic modification of deep traps and corresponding modifications of charge transport and recombination, respectively.


2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (96) ◽  
pp. 17144-17147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fenfen Shi ◽  
Linlin Chen ◽  
Min Chen ◽  
Deli Jiang

Nanocarbon could be used as an electron mediator to construct a Z-scheme photocatalytic system with enhanced charge separation efficiency.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document