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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 4, Issue 88, Pages 47429-47435Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra08335k
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51202208, 51202163, 51172191, 51102203, 11274264]
- Project Supported by Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department [12B129]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2012CB921303]
- Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University [IRT13093]
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Since the discovery of hydrogen evolution through the photoelectrochemical (PEC) splitting of water from n-type TiO2 electrodes, the technology of short-bandgap semiconductors (such as ZnSe, CdS and CdSe) combined with one-dimensional (1D) metal-oxide nanowire (NW) arrays (e.g., TiO2 and ZnO) to enhance their visible-light harvest efficiency has been widely studied. In this study, ZnSe/CdS/CdSe triple-sensitized ZnO NW arrays were successfully fabricated on FTO substrates via a facile hydrothermal and anion exchange reaction, followed by a chemical bath deposition (CBD) approach. Through the effective synergistic light absorption of the solar energy and the multi-type-II graded bandgap level between the core ZnO NW and the different photosensitization out layers in these composite nanostructures, a remarkable enhancement in photochemical conversion performance was achieved. The morphogenetic strategy used for the material production in this work is low-cost but effective, and it could be extended to prepare other core-multishell nanostructures with elaborate textural characteristics.
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