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NANOSCALE
Volume 4, Issue 11, Pages 3543-3550Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2nr30666b
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- Department of Science and Technology (DST), India [SR/S1/IC-25/2009]
- Department of Atomic energy, BRNS [2010/37P/11/BRNS]
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Hyperbranched 3D SrS/CdS nanostructures were synthesized using a one pot hydrothermal method. Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and Field Emission-Scanning Electron Microscopy (FE-SEM) analysis showed the formation of flower-like structure and the crystalline phase was confirmed by powder X-ray diffraction. The prepared 3D SrS/CdS exhibited improved photocatalytic activity for water splitting leading to H-2 generation (AQY 10%) and nearly complete degradation of methyl orange (MO) dye. The dye degradation followed first order kinetics and the apparent reaction rate constant (k(app)) was 0.136 min(-1). The present 3D SrS/CdS structure promise to be efficient photocatalysts due to (i) the facile intersystem charge transfer resulting from their band alignment (ii) enhanced specific surface area and (iii) crystallinity.
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