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Novel assembly of an MoS2 electrocatalyst onto a silicon nanowire array electrode to construct a photocathode
Phong D Tran1, Stevin S Pramana, Vinayak S Kale
1Energy Research Institute @ Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore. dptran@ntu.edu.sg
Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|September 26, 2012
Abstract:
Mild-mannered catalyst: a novel procedure to load a MoS(2) co-catalyst onto the surface of silicon under mild-conditions (room temperature, atmospheric pressure, aqueous solution) by a photo-assisted electrodeposition process employing commercially available precursors is reported. The obtained Si-NW@MoS(2) photocathode showed similar catalytic activity for light-driven H(2) generation compared with a Si-NW@Pt photocathode.
