Issue 27, 2013
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Ultrafine Zn1−xCuxS (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.066) nanocrystallites for photocatalytic H2 evolution under visible light irradiation†

Zongwei Mei,*ab   Shuxin Ouyang,b   Yuanjian Zhangc  and  Tetsuya Kakoab  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
E-mail: MEI.Zongwei@nims.go.jp
Fax: (+81)-29-860-4958

b Catalytic Materials Group, Research Unit for Environmental Remediation Materials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan

c School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University 211189, Nanjing, P. R. China

Abstract

Ultrafine Zn1−xCuxS nanocrystallites were fabricated in a controlled manner by a wet chemical method using thiourea as the complexing reagent. Zn0.951Cu0.049S exhibited high photocatalytic activity for H2 evolution without a cocatalyst under visible light irradiation, which is about 11 times higher than that of CdS prepared by the same procedure.

Graphical abstract: Ultrafine Zn1−xCuxS (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.066) nanocrystallites for photocatalytic H2 evolution under visible light irradiation

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3RA41076E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 Mar 2013
Accepted
15 May 2013
First published
16 May 2013

RSC Adv., 2013,3, 10654-10657

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Ultrafine Zn1−xCuxS (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.066) nanocrystallites for photocatalytic H2 evolution under visible light irradiation

Z. Mei, S. Ouyang, Y. Zhang and T. Kako, RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 10654 DOI: 10.1039/C3RA41076E

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