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Synthesis, Characterization, and Functionalization of Hybrid Au/CdS and Au/ZnS Core/Shell Nanoparticles
Published on: March 2, 2016
Construction of CdS/MoS2 heterojunction from core-shell MoS2@Cd-MOF for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution
Lin Lin1, Siyu Huang, Yuxin Zhu
1Key Laboratory of Jiangxi Province for Environment and Energy Catalysis, The College of Chemistry, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, P. R. China. chaochen@ncu.edu.cn wangxuewen@ncu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
A new synthetic method was used to develop a CdS/MoS2 heterojunction. Cd-MOF was coated onto the surface of MoS2 flowers to construct a core-shell MoS2@Cd-MOF. Thioacetamide was used as a sulfur source to sulfurize the MoS2@Cd-MOF to form a CdS/MoS2 heterojunction. Since the Cd2+ ions were highly ordered and separated by the organic ligands of the Cd-MOF shell, the as-synthesized CdS/MoS2 heterojunction possessed a large surface area and intimate contact at the heterogeneous interface with a uniform loading of CdS nanoparticles on the MoS2 flowers. Consequently, the CdS/MoS2 heterojunction exhibited a significantly enhanced photocatalytic H2 evolution rate of average 5587 μmol h-1 g-1 under UV-visible light irradiation.
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