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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 118, Issue 31, Pages 17594-17599Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp5038014
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- National Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scientists of China [51225205]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61274005]
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Hydrogen fuel produced from water splitting using solar energy and a catalyst is a clean and renewable future energy source. Great efforts in searching for photocatalysts that are highly efficient, inexpensive, and capable of harvesting sunlight have been made for the last decade, which, however, have not yet been achieved in a single material system so far. Here, we predict that MoS2/AlN(GaN) van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures are sufficiently efficient photocatalysts for water splitting under visible-light irradiation based on ab initio calculations. Contrary to other investigated photocatalysts, MoS2/AlN(GaN) vdW heterostructures can separately produce hydrogen and oxygen at the opposite surfaces, where the photoexcited electrons transfer from AlN(GaN) to MoS2 during the photocatalysis process. Meanwhile, these vdW heterostructures exhibit significantly improved photocatalytic properties under visible-light irradiation by the calculated optical absorption spectra. Our findings pave a new way to facilitate the design of photocatalysts for water splitting.
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