Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Photoinduced semiconductor-metal transition in ultrathin troilite FeS nanosheets to trigger efficient hydrogen evolution

  • Gang Zhou,
  • Yun Shan,
  • Longlu Wang,
  • Youyou Hu,
  • Junhong Guo,
  • Fangren Hu,
  • Jiancang Shen,
  • Yu Gu,
  • Jingteng Cui,
  • Lizhe Liu,
  • Xinglong Wu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08358-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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While earth-abundant materials are promising catalysts for renewable energy conversion, such materials tend to display poor activities. Here, authors show FeS troilite nanosheets to undergo a near-infrared light-triggered transition to a phase that displays improved H2 evolution performances.