Ultrathin Co(Ni)-doped MoS2 nanosheets as catalytic promoters enabling efficient solar hydrogen production
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- 作者：Xiaoyan Ma ; Jinquan Li ; Changhua An ; Juan Feng ; Yuhua Chi ; Junxue Liu…
- 刊名：Nano Research
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：August 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：9
- 期：8
- 页码：2284-2293
- 全文大小：2,713 KB
- 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
- 刊物主题：Chinese Library of Science
Chemistry
Nanotechnology - 出版者：Tsinghua University Press, co-published with Springer-Verlag GmbH
- ISSN：1998-0000
- 卷排序：9
文摘
The design of efficient artificial photosynthetic systems that harvest solar energy to drive the hydrogen evolution reaction via water reduction is of great importance from both the theoretical and practical viewpoints. Integrating appropriate co-catalyst promoters with strong light absorbing materials represents an ideal strategy to enhance the conversion efficiency of solar energy in hydrogen production. Herein, we report, for the first time, the synthesis of a class of unique hybrid structures consisting of ultrathin Co(Ni)-doped MoS2 nanosheets (co-catalyst promoter) intimately grown on semiconductor CdS nanorods (light absorber). The as-synthesized one-dimensional CdS@doped-MoS2 heterostructures exhibited very high photocatalytic activity (with a quantum yield of 17.3%) and stability towards H2 evolution from the photoreduction of water. Theoretical calculations revealed that Ni doping can increase the number of uncoordinated atoms at the edge sites of MoS2 nanosheets to promote electron transfer across the CdS/MoS2 interfaces as well as hydrogen reduction, leading to an efficient H2 evolution reaction.