Ultra-low-temperature growth of CdS quantum dots on g-C3N4 nanosheets and their photocatalytic performance

Ruoyu Zhang; Kai Huang; Hehe Wei; Dong Wang; Gang Ou; Naveed Hussain; Ziyun Huang; Cheng Zhang; Hui Wu

doi:10.1039/c7dt04355d

Ultra-low-temperature growth of CdS quantum dots on g-C₃N₄ nanosheets and their photocatalytic performance

Dalton Trans. 2018 Jan 30;47(5):1417-1421. doi: 10.1039/c7dt04355d.

Authors

Ruoyu Zhang¹, Kai Huang, Hehe Wei, Dong Wang, Gang Ou, Naveed Hussain, Ziyun Huang, Cheng Zhang, Hui Wu

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. huiwu@tsinghua.edu.cn.

PMID: 29337329
DOI: 10.1039/c7dt04355d

Abstract

CdS quantum dots deposited on carbon nitride (g-C₃N₄) nanosheets have been synthesized by ultra-low temperature (-60 °C) liquid phase precipitation reactions. The obtained CdS quantum dots were uniformly distributed on the surface of the g-C₃N₄ nanosheets with an average diameter of 5 nm. Correspondingly, CdS/g-C₃N₄ exhibits a highly enhanced photocatalytic performance.