Issue 10, 2011
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Energy & Environmental Science

Polar interface-induced improvement in high photocatalytic hydrogen evolution over ZnO–CdS heterostructures†

Xuewen Wang,ab   Lichang Yin,ac   Gang Liu,a   Lianzhou Wang,b   Riichiro Saito,c   Gao Qing (Max) 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 RD, Shenyang, P. R. China
E-mail: cheng@imr.ac.cn
Fax: (+86) 24 2390 3126

b ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials, The University of Queensland, Australia
E-mail: maxlu@uq.edu.au
Fax: (+)61 7 33653735

c Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Abstract

ZnO surfaces are mainly covered by two polar facets and six nonpolar facets. Due to the unique advantage of polar facets in promoting interface charge carrier transfer in ZnO–CdS heterostructures, the hydrogen evolution rate over ZnO disk–CdS nanoparticle heterostuctures is 2.8 times that of the ZnO rod–CdS nanoparticle one.

Graphical abstract: Polar interface-induced improvement in high photocatalytic hydrogen evolution over ZnO–CdS heterostructures

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0EE00723D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
29 Nov 2010
Accepted
17 Aug 2011
First published
05 Sep 2011

Energy Environ. Sci., 2011,4, 3976-3979

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Polar interface-induced improvement in high photocatalytic hydrogen evolution over ZnO–CdS heterostructures

X. Wang, L. Yin, G. Liu, L. Wang, R. Saito, G. Q. (. Lu and H. Cheng, Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, 4, 3976 DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00723D

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