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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
卷 35, 期 8, 页码 3313-3321出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.01.111
关键词
Visible-light-driven photocatalyst; Solid solution; Hydrogen production; Hydrothermal method
资金
- National High Performance Computing Center (Xi'an) at Xi'an Jiaotong University
(CuIn)(x)Zn2(1-x)S2 (x = 0.01-0.5) microspheres were prepared by a simple hydrothermal method. They were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), UV-Visible diffuse reflectance spectra (UV-Vis), Raman scattering spectra and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area measurement. It was found that the (CuIn)(x)Zn2(1-x)S2 samples formed solid solution only in the presence of surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB). CTAB enabled the increase of the surface area for the (CuIn)(x)Zn2(1-x)S2 solid solutions. Diffuse reflection spectra of the solid solutions shifted monotonically to long wavelength side as the value of x increased. The photocatalytic H-2 evolution activity under visible-light irradiation of the solid solutions was evaluated. The result showed that the activity depended on their corresponding compositions closely. Ru (1.5 wt%)-loaded (CuIn)(0.2)Zn1.6S2 showed the highest photocatalytic activity of 198.09 mu mol h(-1) under visible-light irradiation, and the apparent quantum yield amounted to 15.45% at 420 nm. Furthermore, the density functional theory (OFT) calculations showed that the solid solution with the ration of ZnS and CuInS2, 6:1, was a direct band gap semiconductor. The valence band consisted of the hybrid orbital of S 3p and Cu 3d and the conduction band consisted of In 5s5p orbital mixed with Zn 4s4p. The energy band structure resulted in the visible-light response of the solid solution, and affected its photocatalytic performance. (C) 2010 Professor T. Nejat Veziroglu. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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