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Visible-light-driven H-2 production from pure water is highly promising but unfortunately inefficient. Herein, for the first time, we report the realization of pure-water-splitting H-2 production under visible-light irradiation via single-component CdS without any cocatalysts, employing a piezoelectric-photocatalysis strategy. Wurtzite CdS nanorod arrays that combine piezoelectric and visible-light photocatalytic properties was in-situ assembled on FTO substrates to harvest both solar energy and ultrasonic vibration energy in water. The ultrasound-induced piezoelectric field in CdS drives the separation of photo-generated charge carriers, leading to more facile water-splitting for H-2 evolution than that under visible-light irradiation alone. The CdS nanorod arrays achieves a high H-2 production rate of 20 mu L.h(-1) under optimized coupling field, which is much higher than that of unsupported samples. This work demonstrates the capability of piezoelectric photocatalysts to simultaneously convert visible light energy and acoustic energy into hydrogen energy, which may break a new ground for the design of energy-conversion materials towards harvesting discrete ambient energy in urban environment.
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CHEMCATCHEM
ISSN: 1867-3880
Year: 2018
Issue: 16
Volume: 10
Page: 3397-3401
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3 . 8 0 0
JCR@2023
ESI Discipline: CHEMISTRY;
ESI HC Threshold:209
JCR Journal Grade:2
CAS Journal Grade:3
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WoS CC Cited Count: 89
SCOPUS Cited Count: 97
ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 0 Unfold All
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30 Days PV: 1
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