Highly Ordered N-Doped Carbon Dots Photosensitizer on Metal–Organic Framework-Decorated ZnO Nanotubes for Improved Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

Han, Hyungkyu; Karlicky, Frantisek; Pitchaimuthu, Sudhagar; Shin, Sun Hae Ra; Chen, Aiping

doi:10.1002/smll.201902771

Title: Highly Ordered N-Doped Carbon Dots Photosensitizer on Metal–Organic Framework-Decorated ZnO Nanotubes for Improved Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

Journal Article · Mon Aug 12 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Small

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201902771· OSTI ID:1558062

^[1]; Karlicky, Frantisek ^[2]; Pitchaimuthu, Sudhagar ^[3]; Shin, Sun Hae Ra ^[4]; Chen, Aiping ^[1]

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Univ. of Ostrava (Czech Republic)
Swansea Univ. (United Kingdom)
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Abstract In spite of having several advantages such as low cost, high chemical stability, and environmentally safe and benign synthetic as well as operational procedures, the full potential of carbon dots (CDs) is yet to be explored as photosensitizers due to the challenges associated with the fabrication of well‐arrayed CDs with many other photocatalytic heterostructures. In the present study, a unique combination of metal–organic framework (MOF)‐decorated zinc oxide (ZnO) 1D nanostructures as host and CDs as guest species are explored on account of their potential application in photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting performance. The synthetic strategy to incorporate well‐defined nitrogen‐doped carbon dots (N‐CDs) arrays onto a zeolitic imidazolate framework‐8 (ZIF‐8) anchored on ZnO 1D nanostructures allows a facile unification of different components which subsequently plays a decisive role in improving the material's PEC water splitting performance. Simple extension of such strategies is expected to offer significant advantages for the preparation of CD‐based heterostructures for photo(electro)catalytics and other related applications.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001

OSTI ID:: 1558062

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1556795

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-19-20825

Journal Information:: Small, Vol. 15, Issue 40; ISSN 1613-6810

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