Search Menu
DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Search Scholarly Publications

Title: Hierarchically Superstructured Metal Sulfides: Facile Perturbation-Assisted Nanofusion Synthesis and Visible Light Photocatalytic Characterizations

Abstract

A novel and simple perturbation-assisted nanofusion (PNF) synthetic strategy was developed for the fabrication of stable hierarchically superstructured metal sulfides. This promising approach, based on a kinetically controlled precipitation to simultaneously condense and re-dissolve polymorphic nanocrystallites, provides the resultant samples with a unique mesoporous framework. This PNF approach is environmentally friendly, produces gram-scale products in a matter of hours, and is complimentary to traditional hard or soft templating methods for the construction of mesoporous metal sulfides. PNF derived hierarchical porous CdS exhibited a vastly improved photocatalytic performance over its commercial bulk counterpart under visible light irradiation, demonstrating the advantage of the porous morphology for photocatalysis resulting from the enlarged surface area and the easy accessibility of the mesopores.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [3];  [4];  [4];  [3];  [5];  [2]; ORCiD logo [6]
+ Show Author Affiliations
  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Chemical Sciences Div.; Sul Ros State Univ., Alpine, TX (United States). Dept. of Biology, Geology, and Physical Science
  2. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Chemical Sciences Div.; Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). The Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education
  3. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Chemical Sciences Div.
  4. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Science (CNMS)
  5. Sul Ros State Univ., Alpine, TX (United States). Dept. of Biology, Geology, and Physical Science
  6. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Chemical Sciences Div.; Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1393864
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
ChemNanoMat
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 2; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 2199-692X
Publisher:
Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

Citation Formats

Yue, Yanfeng, Li, Yunchao, Bridges, Craig A., Rother, Gernot, Zhang, Jinshui, Chen, Jihua, Hensley, Dale K., Kidder, Michelle K., Richardson, Bruce C., Parans Paranthaman, Mariappan, and Dai, Sheng. Hierarchically Superstructured Metal Sulfides: Facile Perturbation-Assisted Nanofusion Synthesis and Visible Light Photocatalytic Characterizations. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1002/cnma.201600292.
Copy to clipboard
Yue, Yanfeng, Li, Yunchao, Bridges, Craig A., Rother, Gernot, Zhang, Jinshui, Chen, Jihua, Hensley, Dale K., Kidder, Michelle K., Richardson, Bruce C., Parans Paranthaman, Mariappan, & Dai, Sheng. Hierarchically Superstructured Metal Sulfides: Facile Perturbation-Assisted Nanofusion Synthesis and Visible Light Photocatalytic Characterizations. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/cnma.201600292
Copy to clipboard
Yue, Yanfeng, Li, Yunchao, Bridges, Craig A., Rother, Gernot, Zhang, Jinshui, Chen, Jihua, Hensley, Dale K., Kidder, Michelle K., Richardson, Bruce C., Parans Paranthaman, Mariappan, and Dai, Sheng. Tue . "Hierarchically Superstructured Metal Sulfides: Facile Perturbation-Assisted Nanofusion Synthesis and Visible Light Photocatalytic Characterizations". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/cnma.201600292. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1393864.
Copy to clipboard
@article{osti_1393864,
title = {Hierarchically Superstructured Metal Sulfides: Facile Perturbation-Assisted Nanofusion Synthesis and Visible Light Photocatalytic Characterizations},
author = {Yue, Yanfeng and Li, Yunchao and Bridges, Craig A. and Rother, Gernot and Zhang, Jinshui and Chen, Jihua and Hensley, Dale K. and Kidder, Michelle K. and Richardson, Bruce C. and Parans Paranthaman, Mariappan and Dai, Sheng},
abstractNote = {A novel and simple perturbation-assisted nanofusion (PNF) synthetic strategy was developed for the fabrication of stable hierarchically superstructured metal sulfides. This promising approach, based on a kinetically controlled precipitation to simultaneously condense and re-dissolve polymorphic nanocrystallites, provides the resultant samples with a unique mesoporous framework. This PNF approach is environmentally friendly, produces gram-scale products in a matter of hours, and is complimentary to traditional hard or soft templating methods for the construction of mesoporous metal sulfides. PNF derived hierarchical porous CdS exhibited a vastly improved photocatalytic performance over its commercial bulk counterpart under visible light irradiation, demonstrating the advantage of the porous morphology for photocatalysis resulting from the enlarged surface area and the easy accessibility of the mesopores.},
doi = {10.1002/cnma.201600292},
journal = {ChemNanoMat},
number = 12,
volume = 2,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Nov 29 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Tue Nov 29 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
Copy to clipboard
Journal Article:
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record
https://doi.org/10.1002/cnma.201600292
Copyright Statement
Other availability
Search WorldCat Search WorldCat to find libraries that may hold this journal
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 8 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science
Save / Share:
Export Metadata
Save to My Library
You must Sign In or Create an Account in order to save documents to your library.

Works referenced in this record:

Solar Water Splitting at λ =600 nm: A Step Closer to Sustainable Hydrogen Production
journal, May 2015

  • Zhang, Jinshui; Wang, Xinchen
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 54, Issue 25
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.201502659

Facile synthesis of high-quality nano-sized CdS hollow spheres and their application in electrogenerated chemiluminescence sensing
journal, January 2007

  • Dai, Zhihui; Zhang, Jie; Bao, Jianchun
  • J. Mater. Chem., Vol. 17, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1039/B614203F

Hierarchical Metal–Organic Framework Hybrids: Perturbation-Assisted Nanofusion Synthesis
journal, November 2015

Recent Advances in Synthesis and Applications of Transition Metal Containing Mesoporous Molecular Sieves
journal, January 2002

Surfactant Control of Phases in the Synthesis of Mesoporous Silica-Based Materials
journal, January 1996

  • Huo, Qisheng; Margolese, David I.; Stucky, Galen D.
  • Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 8, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1021/cm960137h

Cubic Mesoporous Silica with Large Controllable Entrance Sizes and Advanced Adsorption Properties
journal, July 2003

  • Fan, Jie; Yu, Chengzhong; Gao, Feng
  • Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 115, Issue 27, p. 3254-3258
  • DOI: 10.1002/ange.200351027

Ordered Mesoporous Carbons
journal, May 2001

Hierarchically porous carbons with optimized nitrogen doping as highly active electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction
journal, September 2014

  • Liang, Hai-Wei; Zhuang, Xiaodong; Brüller, Sebastian
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 5, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5973

Photon-Manipulated Drug Release from a Mesoporous Nanocontainer Controlled by Azobenzene-Modified Nucleic Acid
journal, June 2012

  • Yuan, Quan; Zhang, Yunfei; Chen, Tao
  • ACS Nano, Vol. 6, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1021/nn3018365

Perovskite Oxide Nanosheets with Tunable Band-Edge Potentials and High Photocatalytic Hydrogen-Evolution Activity
journal, September 2014

  • Maeda, Kazuhiko; Eguchi, Miharu; Oshima, Takayoshi
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 53, Issue 48
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.201408441

Titania Nanosheet-Mediated Construction of a Two-Dimensional Titania/Cadmium Sulfide Heterostructure for High Hydrogen Evolution Activity
journal, November 2013

Catalytic Properties of Hierarchical Mesoporous Zeolites Templated with a Mixture of Small Organic Ammonium Salts and Mesoscale Cationic Polymers
journal, May 2006

  • Xiao, Feng-Shou; Wang, Lifeng; Yin, Chengyang
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 45, Issue 19
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.200600241

Visible-Light-Driven CO 2 Reduction with Carbon Nitride: Enhancing the Activity of Ruthenium Catalysts
journal, January 2015

  • Kuriki, Ryo; Sekizawa, Keita; Ishitani, Osamu
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 54, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.201411170

Regenerative PbS and CdS Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells with a Cobalt Complex as Hole Mediator
journal, July 2009

  • Lee, Hyo Joong; Chen, Peter; Moon, Soo-Jin
  • Langmuir, Vol. 25, Issue 13
  • DOI: 10.1021/la900247r

Amphiphilic organosilane-directed synthesis of crystalline zeolite with tunable mesoporosity
journal, August 2006

  • Choi, Minkee; Cho, Hae Sung; Srivastava, Rajendra
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 5, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat1705

Sb 2 S 3 -Sensitized Nanoporous TiO 2 Solar Cells
journal, February 2009

  • Itzhaik, Yafit; Niitsoo, Olivia; Page, Miles
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 113, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1021/jp900302b

Overall water splitting by Pt/g-C 3 N 4 photocatalysts without using sacrificial agents
journal, January 2016

  • Zhang, Guigang; Lan, Zhi-An; Lin, Lihua
  • Chemical Science, Vol. 7, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1039/C5SC04572J

Hypercrosslinked Phenolic Polymers with Well-Developed Mesoporous Frameworks
journal, February 2015

  • Zhang, Jinshui; Qiao, Zhen-An; Mahurin, Shannon M.
  • Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 127, Issue 15
  • DOI: 10.1002/ange.201500305

Synthesis of non-siliceous mesoporous oxides
journal, January 2014

Seawater Uranium Sorbents: Preparation from a Mesoporous Copolymer Initiator by Atom-Transfer Radical Polymerization
journal, October 2013

  • Yue, Yanfeng; Mayes, Richard T.; Kim, Jungseung
  • Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 125, Issue 50
  • DOI: 10.1002/ange.201307825

Shape- and Size-Controlled Synthesis in Hard Templates: Sophisticated Chemical Reduction for Mesoporous Monocrystalline Platinum Nanoparticles
journal, September 2011

  • Wang, Hongjing; Jeong, Hu Young; Imura, Masataka
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 133, Issue 37
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja2058617

Cubic Mesoporous Silica with Large Controllable Entrance Sizes and Advanced Adsorption Properties
journal, July 2003

  • Fan, Jie; Yu, Chengzhong; Gao, Feng
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 42, Issue 27
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.200351027

Ordered mesoporous molecular sieves synthesized by a liquid-crystal template mechanism
journal, October 1992

  • Kresge, C. T.; Leonowicz, M. E.; Roth, W. J.
  • Nature, Vol. 359, Issue 6397, p. 710-712
  • DOI: 10.1038/359710a0

Best Practice in Photocatalysis: Comparing Rates or Apparent Quantum Yields?
journal, May 2015

Visible-Light-Driven CO 2 Reduction with Carbon Nitride: Enhancing the Activity of Ruthenium Catalysts
journal, January 2015

  • Kuriki, Ryo; Sekizawa, Keita; Ishitani, Osamu
  • Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 127, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1002/ange.201411170

Effect of Surface Functionalization of MCM-41-Type Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles on the Endocytosis by Human Cancer Cells
journal, November 2006

  • Slowing, Igor; Trewyn, Brian G.; Lin, Victor S. -Y.
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 128, Issue 46
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja0645943

Environmental Applications of Semiconductor Photocatalysis
journal, January 1995

  • Hoffmann, Michael R.; Martin, Scot T.; Choi, Wonyong.
  • Chemical Reviews, Vol. 95, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1021/cr00033a004

Mesostructured zeolites: bridging the gap between zeolites and MCM-41
journal, January 2015

  • Prasomsri, Teerawit; Jiao, Wenqian; Weng, Steve Z.
  • Chemical Communications, Vol. 51, Issue 43
  • DOI: 10.1039/C4CC10391B

Ice-Templated Materials: Sophisticated Structures Exhibiting Enhanced Functionalities Obtained after Unidirectional Freezing and Ice-Segregation-Induced Self-Assembly †
journal, February 2008

  • Gutiérrez, María C.; Ferrer, María L.; del Monte, Francisco
  • Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 20, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1021/cm702028z

Direct Syntheses of Ordered SBA-15 Mesoporous Silica Containing Sulfonic Acid Groups
journal, August 2000

  • Margolese, D.; Melero, J. A.; Christiansen, S. C.
  • Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 12, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1021/cm0010304

Mesoporous Prussian Blue Analogues: Template-Free Synthesis and Sodium-Ion Battery Applications
journal, February 2014

  • Yue, Yanfeng; Binder, Andrew J.; Guo, Bingkun
  • Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 126, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1002/ange.201310679

Conjugated Polymers: Catalysts for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution
journal, November 2016

  • Zhang, Guigang; Lan, Zhi-An; Wang, Xinchen
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 55, Issue 51
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.201607375

Best Practices for Reporting on Heterogeneous Photocatalysis
journal, July 2014

  • Buriak, Jillian M.; Kamat, Prashant V.; Schanze, Kirk S.
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 6, Issue 15
  • DOI: 10.1021/am504389z

Perovskite Oxide Nanosheets with Tunable Band-Edge Potentials and High Photocatalytic Hydrogen-Evolution Activity
journal, September 2014

  • Maeda, Kazuhiko; Eguchi, Miharu; Oshima, Takayoshi
  • Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 126, Issue 48
  • DOI: 10.1002/ange.201408441

Seawater Uranium Sorbents: Preparation from a Mesoporous Copolymer Initiator by Atom-Transfer Radical Polymerization
journal, October 2013

  • Yue, Yanfeng; Mayes, Richard T.; Kim, Jungseung
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 52, Issue 50
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.201307825

Interface Tension-Induced Synthesis of Monodispersed Mesoporous Carbon Hemispheres
journal, February 2015

  • Fang, Yin; Lv, Yingying; Gong, Feng
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 137, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b01522

Isotope Effect on Adsorbed Quantum Phases: Diffusion of H 2 and D 2 in Nanoporous Carbon
journal, June 2013

Hypercrosslinked Phenolic Polymers with Well-Developed Mesoporous Frameworks
journal, February 2015

  • Zhang, Jinshui; Qiao, Zhen-An; Mahurin, Shannon M.
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 54, Issue 15
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.201500305

Mesoporous Prussian Blue Analogues: Template-Free Synthesis and Sodium-Ion Battery Applications
journal, February 2014

  • Yue, Yanfeng; Binder, Andrew J.; Guo, Bingkun
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 53, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.201310679

On the Controllable Soft-Templating Approach to Mesoporous Silicates
journal, July 2007

Solare Wasserspaltung bei λ =600 nm: ein weiterer Schritt hin zu nachhaltiger Wasserstofferzeugung
journal, May 2015

Photodeposition of CdS Quantum Dots on TiO 2 : Preparation, Characterization, and Reaction Mechanism
journal, August 2009

  • Fujii, Masashi; Nagasuna, Kazuki; Fujishima, Musashi
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 113, Issue 38
  • DOI: 10.1021/jp9056626

Synthesis of pore-variable mesoporous CdS and evaluation of its photocatalytic activity in degrading methylene blue
journal, October 2013

Nanospherical Carbon Nitride Frameworks with Sharp Edges Accelerating Charge Collection and Separation at a Soft Photocatalytic Interface
journal, April 2014

Structuring of metal–organic frameworks at the mesoscopic/macroscopic scale
journal, January 2014

  • Furukawa, Shuhei; Reboul, Julien; Diring, Stéphane
  • Chem. Soc. Rev., Vol. 43, Issue 16
  • DOI: 10.1039/C4CS00106K

Template-Free Synthesis of Hierarchical Porous Metal–Organic Frameworks
journal, June 2013

  • Yue, Yanfeng; Qiao, Zhen-An; Fulvio, Pasquale F.
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 135, Issue 26
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja402694f

An Optimized and General Synthetic Strategy for Fabrication of Polymeric Carbon Nitride Nanoarchitectures
journal, January 2013

  • Zhang, Jinshui; Guo, Fangsong; Wang, Xinchen
  • Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 23, Issue 23
  • DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201203287

Hard Templating Pathways for the Synthesis of Nanostructured Porous Co 3 O 4
journal, February 2007

  • Rumplecker, Anja; Kleitz, Freddy; Salabas, Elena-Lorena
  • Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 19, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1021/cm0610635

Mesoporous carbon nitride–silica composites by a combined sol–gel/thermal condensation approach and their application as photocatalysts
journal, January 2011

  • Kailasam, Kamalakannan; Epping, Jan Dirk; Thomas, Arne
  • Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 4, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1039/c1ee02165f

A General Synthetic Approach for Ordered Mesoporous Metal Sulfides
journal, June 2014

  • Yonemoto, Bryan T.; Hutchings, Gregory S.; Jiao, Feng
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 136, Issue 25
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja504407e

Nanostructured CdS prepared on porous silicon substrate: Structure, electronic, and optical properties
journal, May 2002

  • Zhang, P.; Kim, P. S.; Sham, T. K.
  • Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 91, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.1461888

Performance enhancement through post-treatments of CdS-sensitized solar cells fabricated by spray pyrolysis deposition
journal, May 2010

  • Lee, Yong Hui; Im, Sang Hyuk; Rhee, Jae Hui
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 2, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1021/am100169t

Hierarchically Superstructured Prussian Blue Analogues: Spontaneous Assembly Synthesis and Applications as Pseudocapacitive Materials
journal, November 2014

A New Property of MCM-41:  Drug Delivery System
journal, February 2001

  • Vallet-Regi, M.; Rámila, A.; del Real, R. P.
  • Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 13, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1021/cm0011559

Synthesis and Functionalization of a Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticle Based on the Sol–Gel Process and Applications in Controlled Release
journal, September 2007

  • Trewyn, Brian G.; Slowing, Igor I.; Giri, Supratim
  • Accounts of Chemical Research, Vol. 40, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1021/ar600032u

Polymer Semiconductors for Artificial Photosynthesis: Hydrogen Evolution by Mesoporous Graphitic Carbon Nitride with Visible Light
journal, February 2009

  • Wang, Xinchen; Maeda, Kazuhiko; Chen, Xiufang
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 131, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja809307s
    Sort by:
    [ × clear filter / sort ]

    Works referencing / citing this record:

    Improved Self-Cleaning Properties of Photocatalytic Gypsum Plaster Enriched with Glass Fiber
    journal, January 2019

    • Zając, Kamila; Janus, Magdalena; Morawski, Antoni
    • Materials, Vol. 12, Issue 3
    • DOI: 10.3390/ma12030357

    Improved Self-Cleaning Properties of Photocatalytic Gypsum Plaster Enriched with Glass Fiber
    journal, January 2019

    • Zając, Kamila; Janus, Magdalena; Morawski, Antoni
    • Materials, Vol. 12, Issue 3
    • DOI: 10.3390/ma12030357
      Sort by:
      [ × clear filter / sort ]

      Similar Records in DOE PAGES and OSTI.GOV collections: