Facile synthesis of MoS2/B-TiO2 nanosheets with exposed {001} facets and enhanced visible-light-driven photocatalytic H2 production activity

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (108) ◽  
pp. 107075-107080 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xixian Yang ◽  
Hongyu Huang ◽  
Bei Jin ◽  
Jin Luo ◽  
Xiaosong Zhou

Cocatalysts have been extensively used to accelerate the rate of hydrogen evolution in semiconductor-based photocatalytic systems; however, the influence of interface states between the semiconductor and cocatalyst has rarely been investigated.

Author(s):  
Shitong Han ◽  
Tao Huang ◽  
Yi Pan ◽  
JiWu Zhao ◽  
Lin Huan ◽  
...  

This work demonstrated the rational design and synthesis of the donor-π-acceptor (D-π-A) linear vinylene-linked polymers for visible-light driven H2 production with high-efficiency. Extending the in-plane conjugation, enhancing the electron push-pull...


2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (53) ◽  
pp. 8239-8242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Zhou ◽  
Yufei Zhao ◽  
Lu Shang ◽  
Run Shi ◽  
Li-Zhu Wu ◽  
...  

Ultrathin SnNb2O6 nanosheets with enhanced visible-light photocatalytic H2-production activity were prepared for the first time via a facile hydrothermal route using ultrathin K4Nb6O17 nanosheets as the precursor.


Nanoscale ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (27) ◽  
pp. 13250-13260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaushik Natarajan ◽  
Mohit Saraf ◽  
Shaikh M. Mobin

A facile synthesis of Cu-treated δ-MnO2 thin films on a FTO substrate yields a photocurrent of up to 3.59 mA cm−2 (at 0 V vs. RHE) for the hydrogen evolution reaction in a photoelectrochemical cell under simulated solar illumination (1000 W m−2).


RSC Advances ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (56) ◽  
pp. 32674-32682 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanshan Li ◽  
Chun Hu ◽  
Yannan Peng ◽  
Zhihong Chen

Integration of a nanostructure design with a sub-bandgap enhances the photocatalytic H2 production activity of g-C3N4via facilitating separation of photogenerated charges while simultaneously increasing the active sites and light harvesting ability.


2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (25) ◽  
pp. 8219-8228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya Zheng ◽  
Jinming Wang ◽  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Tianyou Peng ◽  
Renjie Li

Asymmetric zinc porphyrins bearing different pseudo-pyridine substituents were synthesized and used to sensitize Pt/g-C3N4 for photocatalytic H2 production.


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