Cadmium sulfide-based nanomaterials for photocatalytic hydrogen production
Solar hydrogen generation via photocatalytic water splitting represents an attractive strategy to address the global energy crisis and environmental pollution issues. CdS-based photocatalysts, including nanosized CdS powder, CdS-based solid solutions and CdS quantum dots, have attracted significant...
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| Published in | Journal of materials chemistry. A, Materials for energy and sustainability Vol. 6; no. 25; pp. 1166 - 1163 |
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| Main Authors | , , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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Cambridge
Royal Society of Chemistry
2018
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| Summary: | Solar hydrogen generation
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photocatalytic water splitting represents an attractive strategy to address the global energy crisis and environmental pollution issues. CdS-based photocatalysts, including nanosized CdS powder, CdS-based solid solutions and CdS quantum dots, have attracted significant attention for photocatalytic H
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production due to their unique advantages, including strong visible light absorption capacity, suitable band edge levels and excellent electronic charge transfer. This review focuses on recent advances in material design and technological aspects of CdS-based photocatalysts for applications in photocatalytic H
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production. A brief overview of basic concepts and principles of photocatalytic water splitting was given in the Introduction section, followed by the basic properties of CdS. Then, the utilization of three main types of CdS-based semiconductor photocatalysts for solar H
2
generation is introduced, and those important factors which can determine the photocatalytic performance were also discussed in detail. Special consideration has been given to the effect of morphology, interfacial junctions, exposing facet and cocatalysts on the photocatalytic performance of CdS-based photocatalysts. Finally, a roadmap of possible future directions to further explore the research field of CdS-based photocatalysts for solar H
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generation is also discussed.
Recent developments in cadmium sulphide-based photocatalysts including heterojunctions, solid solutions and quantum dots for photocatalytic H
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production are reviewed. |
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| Bibliography: | 2 Zhi-Gang Zou received his B.S. (1982) and M.S. (1986) degrees from Tianjing University and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1996. After working as a Researcher at the Photoreaction Control Research Center of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, Japan), he joined Nanjing University (China) as a Distinguished Professor of Cheung Kong Scholars and the director of the Ecomaterials and Renewable Energy Research Center (ERERC) in 2003. He was elected as an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015. His research interests focus on the fundamental studies of photoactive semiconductors for photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical water splitting, photocatalytic CO Daqin Chen received his B.S. (2001) and M.S. (2004) degrees in Materials Science & Engineering from Central South University and his Ph.D. degree in Condensed Matter Physics from Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (FJIRSM, China) in 2008. Then he worked as an Associate Professor at FJIRSM and became a Full Professor in 2012. He joined Hangzhou Dianzi University as a Distinguished Professor in 2014. His research expertise is in advanced optical materials for photovoltaic cells, light-emitting diodes, sensors and photocatalytic water splitting. reduction and photovoltaic cells. Yong-Jun Yuan received his B.S. degree in Materials chemistry (2009) from Nanchang Hangkong University and his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science (2014) from Nanjing University under the supervision of Professor Zhi-Gang Zou and Zhen-Tao Yu. Since 2014, he has been a Lecturer at Hangzhou Dianzi University in Prof. Dqqin Chen's group and became an Associate Professor in 2016, and his research interests focus on the design and synthesis of semiconductor nanomaterials for solar hydrogen generation. generation. Zhen-Tao Yu received his B.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2004) degrees in Chemistry from Jilin University. After working as a postdoctoral research fellow at Humboldt Universität Zu Berlin in 2004-2005, Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig in 2005-2006, and the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) in 2007-2009, he joined the Ecomaterials and Renewable Energy Research Centre (ERERC) of Nanjing University as an Associate Professor in 2009 and became a Full Professor in 2016. His research interests focus on photocatalysis for solar H ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 2050-7488 2050-7496 2050-7496 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c8ta00671g |