In Situ Synthesis of Metal Sulfide Nanoparticles Based on 2D Metal-Organic Framework Nanosheets

Qipeng Lu; Meiting Zhao; Junze Chen; Bo Chen; Chaoliang Tan; Xiao Zhang; Ying Huang; Jian Yang; Feifei Cao; Yifu Yu; Jianfeng Ping; Zhicheng Zhang; Xue-Jun Wu; Hua Zhang

doi:10.1002/smll.201600976

In Situ Synthesis of Metal Sulfide Nanoparticles Based on 2D Metal-Organic Framework Nanosheets

Small. 2016 Sep;12(34):4669-74. doi: 10.1002/smll.201600976. Epub 2016 Jul 14.

Authors

Qipeng Lu¹, Meiting Zhao¹, Junze Chen¹, Bo Chen^{1

2}, Chaoliang Tan¹, Xiao Zhang¹, Ying Huang¹, Jian Yang¹, Feifei Cao¹, Yifu Yu¹, Jianfeng Ping^{1

3}, Zhicheng Zhang¹, Xue-Jun Wu¹, Hua Zhang⁴

Affiliations

¹ Center for Programmable Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798, Singapore.
² Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute, Interdisciplinary Graduate School, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798, Singapore.
³ School of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
⁴ Center for Programmable Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798, Singapore. HZhang@ntu.edu.sg, hzhang166@yahoo.com.

PMID: 27416293
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201600976

Abstract

A facile in situ synthetic method is developed to synthesize metal sulfide nanoparticles based on 2D M-TCPP (M = Cu, Cd, or Co, TCPP = tetrakis(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin)) metal-organic framework nanosheets. The obtained CuS/Cu-TCPP composite nanosheet is used as the active material in photoelectrochemical cells, showing notably increased photocurrent due to the improved exciton separation and charge carrier transport.

Keywords: composites; metal sulfide nanoparticles; metal-organic frameworks; nanosheets; photoelectrochemical cells.