Noble Metal-Free Reduced Graphene Oxide-Zn x Cd 1– x S Nanocomposite with Enhanced Solar Photocatalytic H 2 -Production Performance

Design and preparation of efficient artificial photosynthetic systems for harvesting solar energy by production of hydrogen from water splitting is of great importance from both theoretical and practical viewpoints. ZnS-based solid solutions have been fully proved to be an efficient visible-light driven photocatalysts, however, the H(2)-production rate observed for these solid solutions is far from exciting and sometimes an expensive Pt cocatalyst is still needed in order to achieve higher quantum efficiency. Here, for the first time we report the high solar photocatalytic H(2)-production activity over the noble metal-free reduced graphene oxide (RGO)-Zn(x)Cd(1-x)S nanocomposite prepared by a facile…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China
• NS
  Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province
• NK
  National Key Research and Development Program of China