Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Carbon-doped SnS2 nanostructure as a high-efficiency solar fuel catalyst under visible light

  • Indrajit Shown,
  • Satyanarayana Samireddi,
  • Yu-Chung Chang,
  • Raghunath Putikam,
  • Po-Han Chang,
  • Amr Sabbah,
  • Fang-Yu Fu,
  • Wei-Fu Chen,
  • Chih-I Wu,
  • Tsyr-Yan Yu,
  • Po-Wen Chung,
  • M. C. Lin,
  • Li-Chyong Chen,
  • Kuei-Hsien Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02547-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Photocatalytic reduction of CO2 to hydrocarbons is a promising route to both CO2 utilization and renewable fuel production. Here the authors identify that carbon-doped SnS2 possesses a high catalytic efficiency towards CO2 reduction owing to low photogenerated charge recombination rates.