H2-production and electron-transfer mechanism of a noble-metal-free WO3@ZnIn2S4 S-scheme heterojunction photocatalyst-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

H₂-production and electron-transfer mechanism of a noble-metal-free WO₃@ZnIn₂S₄ S-scheme heterojunction photocatalyst

Published:2022 Issue:33 Volume:10 Page:17174-17184
ISSN:2050-7488
Container-title:Journal of Materials Chemistry A
language:en
Short-container-title:J. Mater. Chem. A

Author:

Cao Shuang¹,Yu Jiaguo¹²^ORCID,Wageh Swelm³,Al-Ghamdi Ahmed A.³,Mousavi Mitra⁴,Ghasemi Jahan B.⁴,Xu Feiyan²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Luoshi Road 122, Wuhan, 430070, P. R. China

2. Laboratory of Solar Fuel, Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, Lumo Road 388, Wuhan, 430074, P. R. China

3. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia

4. School of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 14155-6455, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

A novel noble-metal-free WO3@ZnIn2S4 heterojunction showed outstanding photocatalytic H2-production activity resulting from S-scheme electron/hole separation and a lower H2-evolution barrier as evidenced by DFT calculation, in situ XPS and TRPL.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

National Key Research and Development Program of China

King Abdulaziz University

Deanship of Scientific Research, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University

Postdoctoral Research Foundation of China

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/TA/D2TA05181H