材料科学
催化作用
分解水
光催化分解水
光催化
量子效率
密度泛函理论
制氢
化学物理
纳米技术
化学工程
氢原子
硫化物
Atom(片上系统)
光化学
氢
光电子学
化学
计算化学
嵌入式系统
工程类
有机化学
冶金
生物化学
烷基
计算机科学
作者
Wei Li,Xiao-shan Chu,Fei Wang,Yanyan Dang,Xiaoyun Liu,Tenghao Ma,Jiayuan Li,Chuanyi Wang
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.121000
摘要
Solar-induced overall water splitting to produce hydrogen is inspiring towards energy sustainability, but it is also formidable due to its limited efficiency seriously hindering its scale up for practical application. CdS is an important transition metal sulfide with low-work-function. However, its photostability is often deteriorated due to photocorrosion influence. To overcome this issue, single-atom Pd was employed here to decorate CdS to form a CdS-Pd nanocatalyst through a simple and controllable photoinduced reduction strategy. The synergetic semiconductor (CdS)-metal (Pd) interaction promotes the fast bulk-to-surface electron migration, thereby the resultant CdS-Pd (3.83‰) nanocatalyst shows considerable structural stability and dramatically improved solar-induced HER activity in overall water splitting, about 110-fold higher than that of pristine CdS. Meanwhile, high apparent quantum yields (AQYs) of 4.47%/1.81% and 33.92%/27.49% were respectively achieved with this decorated nanocatalyst under the light of 420 nm/500 nm in absence and presence of scavenger, demonstrating the high-efficiency under broadband light illumination. Density functional theory (DFT) calculation supports that the easy formation of H* intermediates on the decorated nanocatalyst due to low energy barriers accounts for the internal promoted mechanism for hydrogen production. This study provides important insight to gain stable CdS-based photocatalysts for high-efficient hydrogen production by overall water splitting.
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