Enhanced photocatalytic H2 production on CdS nanorods with simple molecular bidentate cobalt complexes as cocatalysts under visible light

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (32) ◽  
pp. 12897-12905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rana Muhammad Irfan ◽  
Daochuan Jiang ◽  
Zijun Sun ◽  
Dapeng Lu ◽  
Pingwu Du

A noble-metal-free photocatalytic hydrogen production system containing a simple bidentate cobalt Schiff base complex as the molecular cocatalyst, CdS nanorods as the photosensitizer, and ascorbic acid as the electron donor is reported in this paper.

RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 1852-1858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingcai Yin ◽  
Shuang Ma ◽  
Chaojun Wu ◽  
Yaoting Fan

With CoL2 as cocatalyst and eosin Y as sensitizer, the noble-metal-free heterogeneous CoL2/TiO2 system shows much efficient and more stable hydrogen evolution activity than that of the homogeneous system under visible light irradiation.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (16) ◽  
pp. 4122-4128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengdi Wang ◽  
Qianwen Liu ◽  
Nan Xu ◽  
Ningxi Su ◽  
Xuxu Wang ◽  
...  

Amorphous noble metal-free CoSx modified Mn0.5Cd0.5S with excellent photocatalytic hydrogen production activity has been successfully synthesized.


Author(s):  
Zunkun Tan ◽  
Peng Zhang ◽  
Qiaoshan Chen ◽  
Shengqiong Fang ◽  
Guocheng Huang ◽  
...  

Photocatalytic H2 production via water splitting has emerged as an eco-friendly and green technology to efficiently utilize the solar energy. Developing visible light active photocatalysts, especially the metal-free ones is...


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 1515-1522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huanlin Chen ◽  
Daochuan Jiang ◽  
Zijun Sun ◽  
Rana Muhammad Irfan ◽  
Lei Zhang ◽  
...  

Noble-metal-free cobalt nitride (Co3N) can be used as a novel cocatalyst on CdS nanorods for photocatalytic H2production in water under visible light irradiation.


Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hu Liu ◽  
Mengqi Shen ◽  
Peng Zhou ◽  
Zhi Guo ◽  
Xinyang Liu ◽  
...  

Developing an efficient single component photocatalyst for overall water splitting under visible-light irradiation is extremely challenging. Herein, we report a metal-free graphitic carbon nitride (g-CxN4)-based nanosheet photocatalyst (x = 3.2,...


2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (35) ◽  
pp. 12188-12196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Chen ◽  
Huijuan Huang ◽  
Yuanhui Zheng ◽  
Wenhao Sun ◽  
Yi Zhao ◽  
...  

Noble-metal-free Ni3N/g-C3N4 heterojunctions that show high photocatalytic hydrogen evolution activity comparable to platinized g-C3N4 were successfully synthesized.


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