ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
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2024
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IF 7.7
Xiaolong Rong,Ying Han,Hao Dai,Haixia Jiang,Yingang Xue
Black phosphorus nanosheets (BPNS), a novel two-dimensional nanomaterial, find extensive applications in the field of photocatalysis. With the prohibition of bisphenol A (BPA), the utilization of bisphenol S (BPS), which is more resistant to degradation than BPA, has been steadily increasing. In this study, few-layer BPNS was prepared using an improved liquid-phase exfoliation method, showcasing its commendable specific surface area and notable adsorption capacity. Subsequently, a new type of nanocomposite material, BPNS-Cadmium sulfide (CdS), was hydrothermal synthesized involving BPNS and CdS. We conducted comparative assessments of BPNS, CdS, and their composite materials to identify the most efficient catalysts. Ultimately, we found that the composite material BPNS-CdS exhibited the highest capability for degrading BPS in an alkaline environment, achieving an impressive degradation rate of 86.9%. Notably, the degradation rate remained higher in an acidic environment compared to a neutral one. Through Electron Spin Resoance (ESR) experiments, it is revealed that BPNS-CdS, when exposed to visible light, generates •O 2 − , •OH, and h + as confirmed. Additionally, we tested and validated the carrier separation and migration abilities of BPNS-CdS while also calculating the band gap for each material. Building upon these results, a possible photocatalysis mechanism experiment was proposed. Finally, the degradation products were analyzed using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (HPLC-MS) and put forth a plausible pathway for the BPS degradation, and it was found that 4-Phenolsulfonic acid, Ethyl protocatechuate and Isophthalic acid are the main intermediates of BPS. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of the synergy between non-metallic catalysts like BPNS and metal catalysts like CdS. It also offers new insights into the degradation mechanisms and pathways for BPS.
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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
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2019
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IF 5.155
Guanqiong Li,Tong Xu,Ruifang He,Chunping Li,Jie Bai
Photocatalytic water splitting is a promising method to obtain clean hydrogen energy, and the corresponding catalyst has received extensive attention. Among them, cadmium sulfide (CdS) has a relatively narrow band gap (2.4 eV) and a high conduction band position. It can be considered to be a good visible light photocatalyst in response to visible light. However, its application is limited because the existence of rapid photo-electron-hole recombination and photo-corrosion. In this work, a series of hollow CdS tubes have been successfully prepared with the novel morphology via simple one-step solvo-thermal method. The as-prepared catalysts displayed great photocatalytic activity for photocatalytic split water product H 2 under light (λ ≥ 350 nm). Due to the presence of the solvent carbon layer, the photo-corrosion of CdS was prevented, so it had good cycle performance. Meanwhile, the appropriate mole of cadmium sulfur dosage was explored and found that 3 mmol was the most suitable. The CdS-3 sample performed the optimal hydrogen (H 2 ) evolution rate (312.6 μmol g −1 h −1 ) within 4 h. In addition, based on various characterization results of the photocatalyst, the novel structure and probable catalytic mechanism were further explored.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
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2019
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IF 4.084
Lei-Lei Li,Xing-Liang Yin,Dong-Hui Pang,Xin-Xin Du,Han Xue,Hua-Wei Zhou,Qing-Xia Yao,Huai-Wei Wang,Jun-Chao Qian,Jie Yang,Da-Cheng Li,Jian-Min Dou
Exploration of cost-efficient and high-performance photocatalyst for H 2 evolution by using a facile approach is of great importance. In this manuscript, a facile one-pot method was employed to fabricate MoS 2 /CdS heterostructures with MoS 2 intimately grown on the surface of CdS resulting in the formation of well-defined heterostructures. Screen experiment reveals the optimized photocatalytic H 2 evolution performance of MoS 2 /CdS is far exceeding that of pristine CdS by a factor of more than 162. The outstanding performance can be ascribed to the formation of heterostructures which accelerate charge transportation and separation, and the MoS 2 serving as a cocatalyst for the decrease of H 2 overpotential. Moreover, the photocatalytic mechanism of the MoS 2 /CdS was carefully investigated, which contributes to the deep understanding of the photocatalytic process and the designation of other low-cost and high-efficient photocatalyst.
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ACS Applied Nano Materials
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2022
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IF 6.14
Guo Li,Changxue Dong,Genshuai Sun,Mingzhe Li,Xin Cao,Li Zhou,Tao Chen,Fan Yang
Doping is a simple method to modulate the electronic configuration of semiconductor photocatalysts. This study regulated the energy band structure of CdSe nanosheets by Ag doping, which reduced the energy bandwidth of CdSe nanosheets by increasing the carrier density, thereby improving the efficiency of the photocatalytic reduction of uranium by CdSe nanosheets. A 96% removal of U(VI) was achieved by 3% Ag-CdSe nanosheets, which was 1.9 and 1.2 times higher than that of pristine CdSe nanosheets (50%), and 1% Ag-CdSe nanosheets (81%), respectively. Additionally, at pH = 4.0 and a solid–liquid ratio of 0.25, the reduction of uranium by 3% Ag-CdSe nanosheets (765 mg/g) was 2.2 times higher than that of pristine CdSe nanosheets (345.6 mg/g). This study provides a new idea for other efficient photocatalysts designed for uranium reduction.
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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2017
·Vol. 5
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IF 8.867
Xianliang Fu,Li Zhang,Lihua Liu,Hui Li,Sugang Meng,Xiangju Ye,Shifu Chen
MoSx was successfully loaded on hexagonal CdS nanorods as a cocatalyst for the photocatalytic H2 evolution reaction (HER) by a convenient in situ photodeposition method with (NH4)2MoS4 as a precursor. The route is more effective to improve the activity of CdS than the conventional deposition methods. The optimal loading amount of MoSx was determined to be 0.2% (wt%, calculated in terms of MoS2) and the activity of the resulting sample is even higher than that of 0.2% Pt/CdS prepared by a similar photodeposition procedure. An intimate junction in the form of the Cd–S–Mo bond was suggested to account for the high HER performance. This finding opens a new avenue for the deposition and application of sulfide-based cocatalysts which have a great potential to replace noble metal cocatalysts for the photocatalytic HER.
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Nanomaterials
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2021
·Vol. 11
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IF 5.076
Ying Li,Tie Liu,Shuang Feng,Wenshu Yang,Ying Zhu,Yingying Zhao,Zhiyan Liu,Haibin Yang,Wuyou Fu
Herein, a novel actinomorphic flower-like ZnO/Au/CdS nanorods ternary composite photocatalyst is prepared to extend the light-responsive range, reduce the photogenerated charge carriers recombination, and ultimately improve the water splitting performance. Flower-like ZnO nanorods are synthesized by a chemical bath method and the CdS nanoparticles are sensitized by successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction method. Then the Au nanoparticles as co-catalysts are introduced by the photodeposition method to modify the interface of ZnO/CdS for reducing the photogenerated electron recombination rate and further improving the performance of water splitting. Detailed characterizations and measurements are employed to analyse the crystallinity, morphology, composition, and optical properties of the flower-like ZnO/Au/CdS nanorods samples. As a result, the flower-like ZnO/Au/CdS nanorod samples present significantly enhanced water splitting performance with a high gas evolution rate of 502.2 μmol/g/h, which is about 22.5 and 1.5 times higher than that of the pure ZnO sample and ZnO/CdS sample. The results demonstrate that the flower-like ZnO/Au/CdS nanorods ternary composite materials have great application potential in photocatalytic water splitting for the hydrogen evolution field.Keywords:flower-like ZnO nanorods;Au;CdS;photocatalytic water splitting
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
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2018
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IF 4.229
Jimin Du,Huiming Wang,Mengke Yang,Fangfang Zhang,Haoran Wu,Xuechun Cheng,Sijie Yuan,Bing Zhang,Kaidi Li,Yina Wang,Hyoyoung Lee
Efficient production of hydrogen through visible-light-driven water splitting mechanism using semiconductor-based composites has been identified as a promising strategy for converting light into clean H 2 fuel. However, researchers are facing lots of challenges such as light absorption and electron-hole pair recombination and so on. Here, new sheet-shaped MoS 2 and pyramid-shaped CdS in-situ co-grown on porous TiO 2 photocatalysts (MoS 2 CdS TiO 2 ) are successfully obtained via mild sulfuration of MoO 3 and CdO coexisted inside porous TiO 2 monolith by a hydrothermal route. The scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy results exhibit that the MoS 2 CdS TiO 2 composites have average pore size about 500 nm. The 3%MoS 2 10%CdS TiO 2 demonstrated excellent photocatalytic activity and high stability for a hydrogen production with a high H 2 -generation rate of 4146 μmol h −1 g −1 under visible light irradiation even without noble-metal co-catalysts. The super photocatalytic performance of the visible-light-driven hydrogen evolution is predominantly attributed to the synergistic effect . The conduction band of MoS 2 facilitates in transporting excited electrons from visible-light on CdS to the porous TiO 2 for catalytic hydrogen production, and holes to MoS 2 for inhibiting the photocorrosion of CdS, respectively, leading to enhancing the efficient separation of electrons and holes.
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MATERIALS RESEARCH BULLETIN
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2024
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IF 5.3
Yanxue Yue,Jingting Xiao,Weiyu Zhu,Bo Zhang,Rongbo Hou,Alhadi Ishag,Yubing Sun
The introduction of MoS 2 is beneficial to the separation and transfer of photogenerated electron–hole pairs for CdS/TiO 2 . Herein, MoS 2 /CdS/TiO 2 composites were synthesized by one-step solvothermal method at 200 °C and applied to photocatalytic reduction of U(VI) from aqueous solutions. The batch characterizations showed the irregular spherical MoS 2 /CdS/TiO 2 composites with low bandgap (1.95 eV) and high chemical stability. MoS 2 /CdS/TiO 2 composites displayed the rapid removal rate of U(VI) (more than 90 % under 15 min illumination), good regeneration (> 91 % after four cycles) due to the highly efficient separation of electron-hole pair. The possible photocatalytic pathway was demonstrated to be the main active ·O 2 − radical by quenching experiments, ESR and XPS analysis. This work highlights the potential application of MoS 2 /CdS/TiO 2 on removal of radioactive wastewater in the actual remediation.
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Heliyon
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2023
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Huazhang Feng,Tingting Xu,Yuanmin Zhu,Yanping Chen,Jingyun Su,Enna Ha,Ran Jia,Kan Zhang,Lei Ma,Luyang Wang
Cadmium-based semiconductors have a wide range of applications in light-emitting, energy conversion, photodetection and artificial photosynthesis. With the concern about the potential toxicity of Cd, it is necessary to recycle the element from the Cd based semiconductors. Commonly, the precipitation of Cd cations with S 2− is deemed as the end point of recycling. However, actually, CdS is easy to be oxidized and released into the environment and accumulate in the food chain. It still remains challenges on how to refine the Cd element and convert it to the raw material. Herein, we demonstrate a facile room temperature method for recycling Cd from CdS. Cd can be produced from CdS within 3 h with the help of the lithium-ethylenediamine solution. DFT calculations further confirm that the high surface energy of (100) and (101) planes are selectively attacked by the solvated electrons in the solution, which is in good accordance with the XRD, STEM-HAADF and XPS characterizations. With a total recovery efficiency of 88%, Cd is successfully recovered from the CdS powder. This method provides a new perspective on the treatment of Cd-based semiconductor waste, which is of great significance for the recycling of cadmium metal.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2022
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IF 16.744
Yonggang Lei,Kim Hoong Ng,Yingzhen Zhang,Zengxing Li,Shen Xu,Jianying Huang,Yuekun Lai
In an attempt to construct efficient photocatalytic H 2 production system, designing a practical way to integrate co-catalyst and semiconductor is of great importance for future commercialization. Herein, we report a facile one-pot loading of CdS onto WC through the facile solid–liquid mixing method. The resultant visible light-responsive WC-supported CdS photocatalyst, at different WC wt.%, is assessed in photocatalytic hydrogen production, with lactic acid as an electron donor. Experimental results confirmed the positive effects of WC, with 3 wt% WC-loaded CdS photocatalyst (CdS/WC) exhibiting the highest hydrogen evolution rate of 9180 μmol h −1 g −1 . Such achievement is associated to 2.1 and 43 folds activity improvements from that of CdS/Pt(3 wt%) and pure CdS photocatalysts, respectively. Meanwhile, an apparent quantum efficiency (AQE) of 14.3% was also recorded by the same photocatalyst from the single-wavelength photocatalytic reaction at 420 nm. All these enhancements can be attributed to the incorporation of WC, which extending and improving the light absorbability of CdS. Concurrently, the adjoining WC also provides rapid electron transfer channel and water reduction site, which facilitate the spatial separation of charges while promoting the kinetics of hydrogen production reactions. This study presents a facile synthesis method for CdS/WC photocatalyst, which offers high reliability for industrial scale hydrogen production.
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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
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2021
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IF 8.128
Xiaoyun Dong,Huimin Hao,Ningning Wang,Hong Yuan,Xianjun Lang
Semiconductor photocatalysis can carry out selective chemical transformations under ambient conditions, mitigating the associated environmental consequences. However, a single semiconductor photocatalyst usually cannot perform the transformations satisfactorily from the aspects of light-absorption, efficiency, and selectivity , etc. To address these challenges, cadmium sulfide (CdS)/titanate hybrid was fabricated by simultaneously growing titanate and CdS and had been comprehensively characterized. The optimized CdS/titanate hybrid can power the highly selective oxidative homocoupling of amines under the irradiation of green light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Specifically, CdS with a narrow bandgap captures green light; the conduction band of titanate activates molecular oxygen (O 2 ). The valence band of CdS could ensure the selective oxidative homocoupling of amines in methanol (CH 3 OH). The hybridization between CdS and titanate accounts for the expeditious oxidative homocoupling of amines into imines and the improved stability. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) quenching experiments and in situ electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) tests suggest that superoxide anion (O 2 − ) and benzylamine radical are intermediates en route to imines. This work highlights the viability of hybridization of dual semiconductor nanostructures in implementing visible light-powered selective conversions.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2023
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IF 6.2
Zitong Feng,Shuo Sun,Siyu Zhang,Wanlang Zou,Nan Hang,Linpei Zhou,Xiangyu Wei,Yuxia Sun,Jian Wen,Hongri Liu
Sb 2 S 3 has been paid extensive attentions as absorber for solar cells. Comparing with some oxides , CdS exhibits excellent compatibility to Sb 2 S 3 therefore is most commonly used as buffer layer (BL) materials for Sb 2 S 3 solar cells. Proper passivation can enhance the performance of CdS buffer layer thus raising the performances of Sb 2 S 3 solar cells. Herein, we put forward a self-passivation strategy to enhance the performance of CdS by a two-step deposition process to fabricate the self-passivated CdS BL. First, we adopted spin coating combined with annealing process to prepare flaked CdS on FTO, then we performed passivation process to the CdS by depositing another layer of CdS with chemical bath deposition (CBD) method. After Sb 2 S 3 was deposited on the self-passivated CdS by hydrothermal method , a solar cell with FTO/CdS (∼90 nm)/Sb 2 S 3 (160 nm)/Spiro-OMeTAD(48 nm)/Ag(32 nm)structure was obtained by deposition of hole transport layer and Ag electrodes. Comparing with the single spin-coating processed CdS BL or single chemical bath deposited CdS BL, the self-passivated CdS presents better performance. The CBD process presents distinctive passivation effects to the first layer. In consequence, we obtained the highest PCE of 6.04 % in the Sb 2 S 3 solar cells on the self-passivated CdS BL. The present work supplies a unique route to enhance the performances of CdS buffer layer.
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