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 …

Review of metal sulfide nanostructures and their applications

F Jamal, A Rafique, S Moeen, J Haider… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The rapid development of population, industry, and urbanization have generated significant
issues including energy consumption and water contamination. Advanced materials are …

A facile “dispersion–decomposition” route to metal sulfide nanocrystals

Z Zhuang, X Lu, Q Peng, Y Li - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we demonstrate a simple and general “dispersion–decomposition” approach
to the synthesis of metal sulfide nanocrystals with the assistance of alkylthiol. This is a direct …

Experimental insights into partial cation exchange reactions for synthesizing heterostructured metal sulfide nanocrystals

BC Steimle, AM Fagan, AG Butterfield… - Chemistry of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nanocrystal cation exchange is a post-synthetic process that modifies the composition of a
nanoparticle while maintaining other important characteristics, including morphology and …

Metal sulfide photocatalysts for hydrogen generation: A review of recent advances

Z Mamiyev, NO Balayeva - Catalysts, 2022 - mdpi.com
Metal-sulfide nanostructures have piqued the interest of researchers for decades due to their
intriguing optoelectronic properties. Indeed, significant advances and improvements have …

Metal sulfide nanostructures: synthesis, properties and applications in energy conversion and storage

CH Lai, MY Lu, LJ Chen - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal sulfide nanomaterials have attracted great attention because of their excellent
properties and promising applications in electronic, optical and optoelectronic devices. Well …

Precursor triggering synthesis of self-coupled sulfide polymorphs with enhanced photoelectrochemical properties

SK Han, C Gu, S Zhao, S Xu, M Gong… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Heteronanostructures have attracted intensive attention due to their electronic coupling
effects between distinct components. Despite tremendous advances of nanostructure …

Metal chalcogenides based heterojunctions and novel nanostructures for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

J Li, P Jiménez-Calvo, E Paineau, MN Ghazzal - Catalysts, 2020 - mdpi.com
The photo-conversion efficiency is a key issue in the development of new photocatalysts for
solar light driven water splitting applications. In recent years, different engineering strategies …

Rational tuning the optical properties of metal sulfide nanocrystals and their applications

S Shen, Q Wang - Chemistry of Materials, 2013 - ACS Publications
This short review provides an overview of recent progress in rational tuning of the optical
properties of metal sulfide nanocrystals. Three kinds of tuning strategy are discussed in …

Nanostructured binary and ternary metal sulfides: synthesis methods and their application in energy conversion and storage devices

P Kulkarni, SK Nataraj, RG Balakrishna… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal sulfides, known as being analogous to metal oxides, have emerged as a new class of
materials for energy conversion and/or storage applications due to their low cost and high …