Tailored near-infrared-emitting colloidal heterostructured quantum dots with enhanced visible light absorption for high performance photoelectrochemical cells

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (17) ◽  
pp. 10225-10230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Imran Channa ◽  
Xin Tong ◽  
Jing-Yin Xu ◽  
Yongchen Liu ◽  
Changmeng Wang ◽  
...  

Near-infrared-emitting CuGaS2/CdS QDs with enhanced visible light absorption were developed to achieve high efficiency photoelectrochemical cells.

Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 1701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruowen Liang ◽  
Zhoujun He ◽  
Chen Zhou ◽  
Guiyang Yan ◽  
Ling Wu

In this work, CdS quantum dots (QDs) were planted on magnetically recyclable porous Fe2O3 (denoted as F450) to obtain CdS QDs/porous Fe2O3 hybrids (denoted as X–CdS/F450, in which X is the immersion times of CdS QDs). Porous Fe2O3 was first obtained by pyrolysis from an iron-containing metal–organic framework by a two-step calcination method. Next, CdS QDs (of average size 3.0 nm) were uniformly and closely attached to the porous F450 via a sequential chemical-bath deposition strategy. As expected, the X–CdS/F450 hybrids serve as high-performance photocatalysts for the degradation of bisphenol A, a typical endocrine-disrupting chemical. Almost ∼100% of the bisphenol A was degraded over 5-CdS/F450 after visible light irradiation for 30 min (λ ≥ 420 nm). In comparison, the degradation efficiency of pure F450 powder is 59.2%. The high performance of 5-CdS/F450 may be ascribable to the fast electron transport of porous F450, the intense visible-light absorption of the CdS QDs and the matched energy levels between CdS and F450. More significantly, through the photocatalytic degradation reaction, the X–CdS/F450 hybrids can easily be recovered magnetically and reused in subsequent cycles, indicating their stability and recyclability.


Molecules ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiong Sun ◽  
Hui-Jun Li ◽  
Nanquan Ou ◽  
Bowen Lyu ◽  
Bojie Gui ◽  
...  

Nitrogen doped graphene quantum dots (NGQDs) were successfully prepared via a hydrothermal method using citric acid and urea as the carbon and nitrogen precursors, respectively. Due to different post-treatment processes, the obtained NGQDs with different surface modifications exhibited blue light emission, while their visible-light absorption was obviously different. To further understand the roles of nitrogen dopants and N-containing surface groups of NGQDs in the photocatalytic performance, their corresponding composites with TiO2 were utilized to degrade RhB solutions under visible-light irradiation. A series of characterization and photocatalytic performance tests were carried out, which demonstrated that NGQDs play a significant role in enhancing visible-light driven photocatalytic activity and the carrier separation process. The enhanced photocatalytic activity of the NGQDs/TiO2 composites can possibly be attributed to an enhanced visible light absorption ability, and an improved separation and transfer rate of photogenerated carriers.


2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 2142-2149
Author(s):  
Isaac M. Etchells ◽  
Michael C. Pfrunder ◽  
J. A. Gareth Williams ◽  
Evan G. Moore

Cyclometallated Pt(ii) complexes with tridentate N^C^N-coordinating ligands are shown to be effective sensitisers of near-infrared emission from lanthanide(iii) ions following visible light absorption.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (21) ◽  
pp. 10736-10741
Author(s):  
Rui Wang ◽  
Xin Tong ◽  
Ali Imran Channa ◽  
Qiugui Zeng ◽  
Jiachen Sun ◽  
...  

A high performance photoelectrochemical cell fabricated using eco-friendly Mn-alloyed CuInS2/ZnS core/shell quantum dots is demonstrated.


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