Photochemical construction of the ZnCdS/PO/FeCoNiPi–MnO composite for efficient tandem application of photocatalytic partial water splitting and overall water splitting

Abstract

A ZCS/PO/FCNPi–MO composite was constructed by a two-step photochemical synthesis strategy and used for efficient tandem application of photocatalytic partial water splitting and overall water splitting.

Induced dipole moments in amorphous ZnCdS catalysts facilitate photocatalytic H2 evolution

“…3d, e . Among various sulfide photocatalysts 25 , 31 – 50 , the amorphous ZnCdS/Co-MoS x in this work exhibits the highest photocatalytic H 2 evolution rate (Fig. 3d ).…”

“…As shown in Fig. 2p , two characteristic Raman bands at 173.52–412.41 cm −1 and 548.70–714.67 cm −1 are attributed to the 1st and 2nd longitudinal-optical (1- LO and 2 -LO ) phonons in ZnCdS, respectively 25 . AZCS exhibits two broader and less distinct bands at 311 and 620 cm −1 compared to its CZCS counterpart, demonstrating the spatial disorder and translational asymmetry of the amorphous structure 26 .…”