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The development of a new-fashioned functional nanomaterial with an outstanding photocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity under visible-light irradiation is a sustainable and promising strategy to cope with the increasingly serious global energy crisis. Herein, an advanced ternary photocatalytic HER catalyst, in which the Pt nanoparticles and Ti3C2Tx nanosheets are synchronously anchored on the surface of CdS nanospheres (Ti3C2Tx/Pt@CdS), is elaborately constructed via acid etching, self-reduction, and solvothermal treatment. Therein, the synergistic promoting effect between Ti3C2Tx and Pt on the charge transfer of CdS effectively hinders the backtransfer of electrons to recombine with holes, resulting in a high-effective utilization of photo-excited charges. The obtained Ti3C2Tx/Pt@CdS possesses a superior photocatalytic HER activity compared to that of single active component catalyst. This work demonstrates the great potential of MXene materials in constructing high performance photocatalysts.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 62004143), the Key R&D Program of Hubei Province (Grant No. 2022BAA084), the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (Grant No. 2021CFB133), and the Central Government Guided Local Science and Technology Development Special Fund Project (Grant No. 2020ZYYD033).
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Jiang, J., Xiong, Z., Wang, H. et al. Anchoring Pt nanoparticles and Ti3C2Tx MXene nanosheets on CdS nanospheres as efficient synergistic photocatalysts for hydrogen evolution. Sci. China Technol. Sci. 65, 3020–3028 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-022-2192-6
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