Surfactant-thermal method to synthesize a novel two-dimensional oxochalcogenide

Junkuo Gao; Qiuling Tay; Pei-Zhou Li; Wei-Wei Xiong; Yanli Zhao; Zhong Chen; Qichun Zhang

doi:10.1002/asia.201301023

Surfactant-thermal method to synthesize a novel two-dimensional oxochalcogenide

Chem Asian J. 2014 Jan;9(1):131-4. doi: 10.1002/asia.201301023. Epub 2013 Oct 15.

Authors

Junkuo Gao¹, Qiuling Tay, Pei-Zhou Li, Wei-Wei Xiong, Yanli Zhao, Zhong Chen, Qichun Zhang

Affiliation

¹ School of Materials Science & Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798 (Singapore).

PMID: 24129949
DOI: 10.1002/asia.201301023

Abstract

A new two-dimensional (2D) oxosulfide, (N2H4)2Mn3Sb4S8(μ3-OH)2 (1), has been successfully synthesized under surfactant-thermal conditions with hexadecyltributylphosphonium bromide as the surfactant. Compound 1 has a layered structure and contains a novel [Mn3(μ3-OH)2]n chain along the b-axis. The photocatalytic activity for compound 1 has been demonstrated under visible-light irradiation and continuous H2 evolution was observed. Our results indicate that surfactant-thermal synthesis could be a promising method for growing novel crystalline oxochalcogenides with interesting structures and properties.

Keywords: hydrogen evolution; photocatalysis; polychalcogenides; surfactants; water splitting.