Artificial Z-scheme, a tandem structure with two-step excitation process, has gained significant attention in energy production and environmental remediation. By effectively connecting and matching the band-gaps of two different photosystems, it is significant to utilize more photons for excellent photoactivity. Herein, a novel one-photon (same energy-two-photon) Z-scheme system is constructed between rGO modified boron-nitrogen co-doped-WO 3 , and coupled CdSe quantum dots-(QDs). The coctalyst-0.5%Rh x Cr 2 O 3 (0.5RCr) modified amount-optimized sample 6%CdSe/1%rGO3%BN-WO 3 revealed an unprecedented visible-light driven overall-water-splitting to produce ≈51 μmol h −1 g −1 H 2 and 25.5 μmol h −1 g −1 O 2 , and it remained unchanged for 5 runs in 30 h. This superior performance is ascribed to the one-photon Z-scheme, which simultaneously stimulates a two photocatalysts system, and enhanced charge separation as revealed by various spectroscopy techniques. The density-functional theory is further utilized to understand the origin of this performance enhancement. This work provides a feasible strategy for constructing an efficient one-photon Z-scheme for practical applications.
The miniaturization and demand for high-performance BaTiO 3 (BTO)-based multilayer chips have evoked tremendous research to further scale down the size of the BTO nano-particles (NPs) by wet chemical techniques. However, synthesizing narrowly dispersed tetragonal-BTO NPs with nano-scale size is still challenging. In this work, a maleic acid-assisted modified coprecipitation (CP) route armed with freeze-drying was carried out to obtain BTO NPs with a mean size of ∼170 nm and a high c/a ratio of 1.0109. In addition, the synergetic effect of freeze-drying accompanied by glucose as an aggregation inhibitor resulted in ultra-fine (∼44 nm) narrowly dispersed tetragonal BTO, which to the best of our knowledge is the finest compared with those obtained by CP methods and even hydrothermal method. The maximum permittivity of >12,000 with low dielectric loss (0.03) can be obtained for the asobtained BTO-Fr-Gl-pH9-1400C ceramic pellet. This modified synthetic strategy and the obtained powder are promising for further scaling the BTO-based multilayer chips.
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