Hexagonal@Cubic CdS Core@Shell Nanorod Photocatalyst for Highly Active Production of H2 with Unprecedented Stability

Kui Li; Min Han; Rong Chen; Shun-Li Li; Shuai-Lei Xie; Chengyu Mao; Xianhui Bu; Xue-Li Cao; Long-Zhang Dong; Pingyun Feng; Ya-Qian Lan

doi:10.1002/adma.201601047

Hexagonal@Cubic CdS Core@Shell Nanorod Photocatalyst for Highly Active Production of H₂ with Unprecedented Stability

Adv Mater. 2016 Oct;28(40):8906-8911. doi: 10.1002/adma.201601047. Epub 2016 Aug 24.

Authors

Kui Li^{1

2}, Min Han¹, Rong Chen¹, Shun-Li Li¹, Shuai-Lei Xie¹, Chengyu Mao³, Xianhui Bu⁴, Xue-Li Cao¹, Long-Zhang Dong¹, Pingyun Feng⁵, Ya-Qian Lan⁶

Affiliations

¹ Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biofunctional Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023, China.
² School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan, 250022, China.
³ Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA.
⁴ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Long Beach, CA, 90840, USA.
⁵ Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA. pingyun.feng@ucr.edu.
⁶ Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biofunctional Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023, China. yqlan@njnu.edu.cn.

PMID: 27553983
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201601047

Abstract

A highly effective, low-cost strategy for improved photocatalytic efficiency and stability of CdS is described. Based on the integration of hexagonal-cubic core-shell architecture with nanorod morphology, the concentric CdS nanorod phase junctions (NRPJs) obtained demonstrate extremely high H₂ production rate and unprecedented photocatalytic stability.

Keywords: cadmium sulfide; core-shell; phase junctions; photocatalysis; photocatalytic stability.