Water Splitting: Strongly Coupled Nafion Molecules and Ordered Porous CdS Networks for Enhanced Visible-Light Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Evolution (Adv. Mater. 24/2016)

Xue-Li Zheng; Ji-Peng Song; Tao Ling; Zhen Peng Hu; Peng-Fei Yin; Kenneth Davey; Xi-Wen Du; Shi-Zhang Qiao

doi:10.1002/adma.201670169

Water Splitting: Strongly Coupled Nafion Molecules and Ordered Porous CdS Networks for Enhanced Visible-Light Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Evolution (Adv. Mater. 24/2016)

Adv Mater. 2016 Jun;28(24):4943. doi: 10.1002/adma.201670169.

Authors

Xue-Li Zheng¹, Ji-Peng Song¹, Tao Ling^{1

2}, Zhen Peng Hu³, Peng-Fei Yin¹, Kenneth Davey², Xi-Wen Du¹, Shi-Zhang Qiao^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory for Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology of Ministry of Education, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China.
² School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia.
³ School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China.

PMID: 27311095
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201670169

Abstract

T. Ling, X.-W. Du, S. Z. Qiao, and co-workers report strongly coupled Nafion molecules and ordered-porous CdS networks for visible-light water splitting. The image conceptually shows how the three-dimensional ordered structure effectively harvests incoming light. As described on page 4935, the inorganic CdS skeleton is homogeneously passivated by the organic Nafion molecules to facilitate hydrogen generation.

Keywords: inverse opals; organic-inorganic materials; photoelectrochemical water splitting.