Recent advances in metal sulfides: from controlled fabrication to electrocatalytic, photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical water splitting and beyond

S Chandrasekaran, L Yao, L Deng, C Bowen… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, nanocrystals of metal sulfide materials have attracted scientific research
interest for renewable energy applications due to the abundant choice of materials with …

[HTML][HTML] Recent developments and perspectives in CdS-based photocatalysts for water splitting

JA Nasir, Z ur Rehman, SNA Shah, A Khan… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past few years, many approaches have been developed progressively to produce
hydrogen (H2) from water under solar light irradiation. This process of fuel production is …

Knack behind the high performance CdS/ZnS-NiS nanocomposites: Optimizing synergistic effect between cocatalyst and heterostructure for boosting hydrogen …

D Ma, JW Shi, L Sun, Y Sun, S Mao, Z Pu, C He… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Introducing co-catalyst and constructing heterostructure are two of the most promising
strategies in improving the photocatalytic H 2 evolution performance of semiconductors …

Dodecylamine coordinated tri-arm CdS nanorod wrapped in intermittent ZnS shell for greatly improved photocatalytic H2 evolution

G Sun, JW Shi, S Mao, D Ma, C He, H Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
A new photocatalyst, the tri-arm CdS/ZnS core–shell nanorod, is carefully designed for the
first time, where tri-arm CdS nanorods are decorated by dodecylamine (DDA) molecules and …

Recent advances in two-dimensional materials and their nanocomposites in sustainable energy conversion applications

K Khan, AK Tareen, M Aslam, Y Zhang, R Wang… - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have a wide platform in research and expanding nano-and
atomic-level applications. This study is motivated by the well-established 2D catalysts, which …

Interfacial atom‐substitution engineered transition‐metal hydroxide nanofibers with high‐valence Fe for efficient electrochemical water oxidation

B Zhang, Z Wu, W Shao, Y Gao, W Wang… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Developing low‐cost electrocatalysts for efficient and robust oxygen evolution reaction
(OER) is the key for scalable water electrolysis, for instance, NiFe‐based materials …

Recent advances and the design criteria of metal sulfide photocathodes and photoanodes for photoelectrocatalysis

CY Toe, S Zhou, M Gunawan, X Lu, YH Ng… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal sulfides have emerged as promising materials for photoelectrochemical (PEC)
applications due to their favorable light absorption ability, tunable structural and optical …

Ascorbic acid functionalized CdS–ZnO core–shell nanorods with hydrogen spillover for greatly enhanced photocatalytic H 2 evolution and outstanding photostability

G Sun, B Xiao, H Zheng, JW Shi, S Mao, C He… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, a new kind of CdS–ZnO core–shell nanorods with controlled ZnO shell are first
synthesized by a simple chemical deposition method in aqueous solution. The thickness …

Efficient and stable charge transfer channels for photocatalytic water splitting activity of CdS without sacrificial agents

W Chen, GB Huang, H Song, J Zhang - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Semiconductor-based durable photocatalysts for efficient water splitting have attracted much
attention for the development of sustainable hydrogen energy production, but it is …

Cu (II) decorated thiol-functionalized MOF as an efficient transfer medium of charge carriers promoting photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

S Mao, JW Shi, G Sun, Y Zhang, X Ji, Y Lv… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Herein, a new photocatalyst (UiOS-Cu-CdS/ZnS, abbreviated as SCu-CZS) with hierarchical
structure is well-designed by loading CdS/ZnS quantum dots (QDs) onto Cu (II) decorated …