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A Unique Ternary Semiconductor-(Semiconductor/Metal) Nano-Architecture for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

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Design, Synthesis and Applications of One-Dimensional Chalcogenide Hetero-Nanostructures

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A novel strategy was developed for fabricating ternary semiconductor-semiconductor-metal heteronanorods. Basing on prepared ZnS nanorods, we constructed unique 1D ternary heteronanorods -[S1-(S2/M)]-S1-[S1-(S2/M)]-S1-, with segmented node sheaths S2 decorated by M (S1: ZnS; S2: CdS; M: Au, Pd, Pt) through the chemical transformation strategy. The charge-separation efficacy in this unique ternary nanosystem has been demonstrated by performance improvement of optical-to-electrical conversion.

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Zhuang, TT. (2018). A Unique Ternary Semiconductor-(Semiconductor/Metal) Nano-Architecture for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. In: Design, Synthesis and Applications of One-Dimensional Chalcogenide Hetero-Nanostructures. Springer Theses. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0188-9_3

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