Ran Jingrun, Zhang Hongping, Qu Jiangtao, Xia Bingquan, Zhang Xuliang, Chen Shuangming, Song Li, Jing Liqiang, Zheng Rongkun, Qiao Shi-Zhang
School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
State Key Laboratory of Environmentally Friendly Energy Materials, Engineering Research Center of Biomass Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Sichuan, 621010, P. R. China.
Chemistry. 2019 Jul 22;25(41):9670-9677. doi: 10.1002/chem.201901250. Epub 2019 Jul 1.
As photocatalysis technology could transform renewable and clean solar energy into green hydrogen (H ) energy through solar water splitting, it is regarded as the "Holy Grail" in chemistry field in the 21st century. Unfortunately, the bottleneck of this technique still lies in the exploration of highly active, cost-effective, and robust photocatalysts. This work reports the design and synthesis of a novel zeolitic imidazole framework (ZIF) coupled Zn Cd S hetero-structured photocatalyst for high-performance visible-light-induced H production. State-of-the-art characterizations and theoretical computations disclose that the interfacial electronic interaction between ZIF and Zn Cd S, the high distribution of Zn Cd S on ZIF, and the atomically dispersed coordinately unsaturated Co sites in ZIF synergistically arouse the significantly improved visible-light photocatalytic H production performance.
