Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

Ti3C2 MXene co-catalyst on metal sulfide photo-absorbers for enhanced visible-light photocatalytic hydrogen production

  • Jingrun Ran,
  • Guoping Gao,
  • Fa-Tang Li,
  • Tian-Yi Ma,
  • Aijun Du,
  • Shi-Zhang Qiao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13907
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Solar hydrogen production through photocatalytic water splitting requires active and stable co-catalysts to replace platinum. Here, the authors use DFT to identify Ti3C2nanoparticles as potential co-catalysts, and assess their photocatalytic hydrogen production activity.