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Fabrication of Large-area Free-standing Ultrathin Polymer Films
Published on: June 3, 2015
Ultrathin Ni(ii)-based coordination polymer nanosheets as a co-catalyst for promoting photocatalytic H2-production
Zhi-Qiang Jiang1, Xing-Liang Chen, Jin Lu
1Deep-processing of Fine Flake Grapgite Sichuan Province Key Laboratory of Colleges and Universities, Panzhihua University, Panzhihua, Sichuan 617000, P. R. China. myjiangzq@163.com.
Abstract:
Ni(ii) coordination polymer nanosheets (Ni-CPNS) were prepared via a top-down liquid ultrasonication exfoliation method. For the first time, Ni-CPNS was used as a co-catalyst (Ni-CPNS@CdS) via a mechanical grinding strategy. The optimized Ni-CPNS@CdS catalyst reached a super high visible-light photocatalytic hydrogen production activity of 10 210 μmol h-1 g-1, exceeding that of bare CdS nanoparticles by 1480%. Our work can open new avenues towards the design of stable and cheap CPNS co-catalysts to replace expensive and rare noble metals for photocatalysis processes.
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