Improving the photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic performance of CdO nanorods with CdS decoration

Wei Li; Mingyang Li; Shilei Xie; Teng Zhai; Minghao Yu; Chaolun Liang; Xingwang Ouyang; Xihong Lu; Haohua Li; Yexiang Tong

doi:10.1039/C3CE40092A

Improving the photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic performance of CdO nanorods with CdS decoration†

Wei Li,^a Mingyang Li,^a Shilei Xie,^a Teng Zhai,^a Minghao Yu,^a Chaolun Liang,^a Xingwang Ouyang,^c Xihong Lu,^a Haohua Li*^b and Yexiang Tong*^a

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^a KLGHEI of Environment and Energy Chemistry, MOE of the Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, P. R. China
E-mail: chedhx@mail.sysu.edu.cn

^b Center for Photon Manufacturing Science and Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, P. R. China
E-mail: lihaohua@ujs.edu.cn

^c Guangdong University of Education, Guangzhou 510303, P. R. China

Abstract

Herein, we report an effective and simple strategy to greatly improve the photoactivity of CdO nanorods (NRs) by decorating them with CdS. The CdO–CdS heterostructured NRs grown on a FTO substrate exhibited substantially higher visible-light-driven photoactivity for a PEC cell and the degradation of methylene blue (MB) solution compared to CdO NRs.

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Improving the photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic performance of CdO nanorods with CdS decoration†

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