Nonaqueous synthesis of metal cyanamide semiconductor nanocrystals for photocatalytic water oxidation

Wei Zhao; Jie Pan; Fuqiang Huang

doi:10.1039/c7cc09699b

Nonaqueous synthesis of metal cyanamide semiconductor nanocrystals for photocatalytic water oxidation

Chem Commun (Camb). 2018 Feb 8;54(13):1575-1578. doi: 10.1039/c7cc09699b.

Authors

Wei Zhao¹, Jie Pan, Fuqiang Huang

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Super fine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China. huangfq@mail.sic.ac.cn.

PMID: 29367999
DOI: 10.1039/c7cc09699b

Abstract

Herein, we report nonaqueous synthesis of metal cyanamide semiconductor nanocrystals, including Ag₂NCN nanorods (NRs), ZnNCN NRs and PbNCN nanoparticles. The as-prepared Ag₂NCN NRs with a band gap of 2.35 eV are applied as photocatalysts for water oxidation. Their oxygen evolution rate (280.7 μmol h^-1 g^-1) is much higher than that of Ag₂NCN microcrystals (24.0 μmol h^-1 g^-1).