Shen-wei Bai, Hui Mei,*Gang-qiang Zhu, Ming-gang Zhang, Wei-zhao Huang and Lai-fei Cheng DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c01085 In this paper, the authors develop a Ag core – Zn0.5Cd0.5S semiconductor shell nanoparticle for the photocatalytic production of hydrogen from water (Figure 1). The aim was to develop a nanocomposite which may utilise the intrinsic […]
Raman and XPS Identification of Colloidal Metal Sulfides as Potential Secondary Phases in Nanocrystalline Cu2ZnSnS4 Photovoltaic Absorbers
Oleksandr Selyshchev, Yevhenii Havryliuk, Mykhailo Ya. Valakh, Volodymyr O. Yukhymchuk, Oleksandra Raievska, Oleksandr L. Stroyuk, Volodymyr Dzhagan*, Dietrich R.T. Zahn https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.0c00910 Copyright © 2020 American Chemical Society In this work, the authors outline the use of XPS and RAMAN as a combined approach to deducing chemical structure in complex quaternary […]
Mini Review: Handbook of Mineral Spectroscopy 1st Edition (Volume 1: X-ray Photoelectron Spectra)
Elsevier has recently published the Handbook of Mineral Spectroscopy, Volume 1: X-ray Photoelectron Spectra which presents a database of XPS spectra for minerals by reknowned mineralogists J. Theo Kloprogge and Barry Wood. The book itself is presented with an introduction to XPS and its physcial basis, together with example of […]