Huang Jing, Xu Bo, Tian Lei, Pati Palas Baran, Etman Ahmed S, Sun Junliang, Hammarström Leif, Tian Haining
Department of Chemistry-Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Box 523, SE 751 20, Uppsala, Sweden.
Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry (MMK), Stockholm University, SE 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Jul 14;55(55):7918-7921. doi: 10.1039/c9cc04222a. Epub 2019 Jun 19.
Heavy metal-free CuInS quantum dots (QDs) were employed as a photosensitizer on a NiO photocathode to drive an immobilized molecular Re catalyst for photoelectrochemical CO reduction for the first time. A photocurrent of 25 μA cm at -0.87 V vs. NHE was obtained, providing a faradaic efficiency of 32% for CO production.