Issue 23, 2009
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Chemical Communications

Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution by prolonging the lifetime of carriers in ZnO/CdS heterostructures†

Xuewen Wang,‡a   Gang Liu,‡a   Zhi-Gang Chen,b   Feng Li,a   Lianzhou Wang,b   Gao Qing Lu*b  and  Hui-Ming Cheng*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 72 Wenhua Road, P. R. China
E-mail: cheng@imr.ac.cn
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b ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials, School of Engineering and Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Australia
E-mail: maxlu@uq.edu.au
Fax: +61 7 33656074
Tel: +61 7 33653735

Abstract

Coupled ZnO/CdS heterostructures based on the Z-scheme mechanism are demonstrated to be highly active photocatalysts for H2 evolution under simulated solar light irradiation due to the greatly prolonged lifetime of photoexcited carriers.

Graphical abstract: Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution by prolonging the lifetime of carriers in ZnO/CdS heterostructures

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B904668B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
06 mar 2009
Accepted
01 apr 2009
First published
06 may 2009

Chem. Commun., 2009, 3452-3454

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Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution by prolonging the lifetime of carriers in ZnO/CdS heterostructures

X. Wang, G. Liu, Z. Chen, F. Li, L. Wang, G. Q. Lu and H. Cheng, Chem. Commun., 2009, 3452 DOI: 10.1039/B904668B

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