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An Efficient Photocatalyst with Pt/TiO2@CdS/Co3O4 Hollow Core–Shell Nanostructure for Overall Water Splitting

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Photocatalytic split water attracts tremendous research interest because of its outstanding advantages in generating clean energy. Therefore, this work reports the synthesis of Pt/TiO2@CdS/Co3O4 hollow core–shell nanocomposites using a hard template method. The resulting material was then used for photo-induced spontaneous water splitting. The rationally designed hollow core–shell structure of this material not only enhanced the light collection capacity but also improved the separation efficiency of photogenerated carriers owing to its TiO2/CdS heterojunction. The presence of the Pt and Co3O4 catalysts in our novel material resulted in 63.2 and 29.7 μmol/g of H2 and O2 yields, respectively. Our work provides insights into conversion efficiency improvements during visible light-assisted catalytic water splitting.

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This work was supported financially by Open subject of Key Laboratory of Materials Oriented Chemical Engineering at Universities of Education Department of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (20201001), Natural Science Foundation of Henan Department of Education (NO. 202300410020), Cross projects of Nanyang Institute of Technology (330078) and students innovation project of Nanyang Institute of technology.

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    Keliang Wu, Zhenyu Li, Yue Ma, Xiang Peng, Xuqi Yang, Shuang Cheng, Meng Guo & Bingke Li

  2. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shihezi University/Key Laboratory for Green Processing of Chemical Engineering of Xinjiang Bingtuan/Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region/Engineering Research Center of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering of Xinjiang Bingtuan, Shihezi, 832003, Xinjiang, People’s Republic of China

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  3. Department of Petroleum and Chemical, Bayingoleng Vocational and Technical College, Korla, 841000, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China

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Wu, K., Wu, P., Li, Z. et al. An Efficient Photocatalyst with Pt/TiO2@CdS/Co3O4 Hollow Core–Shell Nanostructure for Overall Water Splitting. JOM 74, 4441–4448 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-022-05496-6

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