Hierarchically porous hydrangea-like In2S3/In2O3 heterostructures for enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution
Authors
Manli Liu
Pan Li
Shuaijun Wang, Edith Cowan University
Yingmin Liu
Jinqiang Zhang, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Lin Chen
Junmei Wang
Yushan Liu
Qi Shen
Peng Qu
Hongqi Sun, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
Volume
587
First Page
876
Last Page
882
PubMed ID
33239215
Publisher
Elsevier
School
School of Engineering
RAS ID
32846
Funders
National Natural Science Foundation of China Key Scientific Research Project of Colleges and Universities in Henan Province Program for Science & Technology Innovative Research Team in University of Henan Province Innovative Experimental Projects for College Students of Shangqiu Normal University Starting Research Fund of Shangqiu Normal University and CSC scholarship
Abstract
© 2020 Elsevier Inc. Semiconductor-based photocatalytic hydrogen evolution is considered to be a promising and cost-effective approach to address the environmental issues and energy crisis. It still remains a great challenge to design highly-efficient semiconductor photocatalysts via a facile method. Herein, hierarchically porous hydrangea-like In2S3/In2O3 heterostructures are successfully synthesized via a simple in situ oxidization process. The formed In2S3/In2O3 heterostructures exhibit superior photocatalytic activity to the counterpart In2S3 and In2O3. The boosted photocatalytic performance is ascribed to the formed heterostructures, which greatly facilitate the interfacial charge transfer. Moreover, the formation of hierarchically porous heterostructures increases the number of active sites and improves the permeability, and thus significantly promotes the photocatalytic H2 evolution activity. This work may provide a new insight for designing In2S3-based heterostructures for efficient solar light conversion.
DOI
10.1016/j.jcis.2020.11.048
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Liu, M., Li, P., Wang, S., Liu, Y., Zhang, J., Chen, L., ... Sun, H. (2021). Hierarchically porous hydrangea-like In2S3/In2O3 heterostructures for enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 587, 876-882. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2020.11.048