In Situ Synthesis of Metal Sulfide Nanoparticles Based on 2D Metal-Organic Framework Nanosheets

• Main Authors: Lu, Qipeng, Zhao, Meiting, Chen, Junze, Chen, Bo, Tan, Chaoliang, Zhang, Xiao, Huang, Ying, Yang, Jian, Cao, Feifei, Yu, Yifu, Ping, Jianfeng, Zhang, Zhicheng, Wu, Xue-Jun, Zhang, Hua
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Composites; Metal-organic Frameworks
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86045; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43923
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A facile in situ synthetic method is developed to synthesize metal sulfide nanoparticles based on 2D M-TCPP (M = Cu, Cd, or Co, TCPP = tetrakis(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin)) metal-organic framework nanosheets. The obtained CuS/Cu-TCPP composite nanosheet is used as the active material in photoelectrochemical cells, showing notably increased photocurrent due to the improved exciton separation and charge carrier transport.