Improved Hydrogen Production of Au-Pt-CdS Hetero-Nanostructures by Efficient Plasmon-Induced Multipathway Electron Transfer

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• 作者：Liang Ma ; Kai Chen ; Fan Nan ; Jia-Hong Wang ; Da-Jie Yang ; Li Zhou and Qu-Quan Wang
• 刊名：Advanced Functional Materials
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 6, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：26
• 期：33
• 页码：6076-6083
• 全文大小：1489K
• ISSN：1616-3028

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The design of new functional materials with excellent hydrogen production activity under visible-light irradiation has critical significance for solving the energy crisis. A well-controlled synthesis strategy is developed to prepare an Au–Pt–CdS hetero-nanostructure, in which each component of Au, Pt, and CdS has direct contact with the other two materials; Pt is on the tips and a CdS layer along the sides of an Au nanotriangle (NT), which exhibits excellent photocatalytic activity for hydrogen production under light irradiation (λ > 420 nm). The sequential growth and surfactant-dependent deposition produce the three-component Au–Pt–CdS hybrids with the Au NT acting as core while Pt and CdS serve as a co-shell. Due to the presence of the Au NT cores, the Au–Pt–CdS nanostructures possess highly enhanced light-harvesting and strong local-electric-field enhancement. Moreover, the intimate and multi-interface contact generates multiple electron-transfer pathways (Au to CdS, CdS to Pt and Au to Pt) which guide photoexcited electrons to the co-catalyst Pt for an efficient hydrogen reduction reaction. By evaluating the hydrogen production rate when aqueous Na₂SO₃–Na₂S solution is used as sacrificial agent, the Au–Pt–CdS hybrid exhibits excellent photocatalytic activity that is about 2.5 and 1.4 times larger than those of CdS/Pt and Au@CdS/Pt, respectively.