Carbon-doped SnS2 nanostructure as a high-efficiency solar fuel catalyst under visible light(by Dr. Kuei-Hsien Chen’s group)

Carbon-doped SnS2 (SnS2-C) metal dichalcogenide nanostructure has been synthesized using a hydrothermal technique, which exhibits a highly active and selective photocatalytic conversion of CO2 to hydrocarbons under visible-light, attaining a photochemical quantum efficiency of above 0.7%. The SnS2 -C photocatalyst represents an important contribution towards high quantum efficiency artificial photosynthesis based on gas phase photocatalytic CO2 reduction under visible light. (This work has been published in Nature Communications Volume 9, Article number: 169 (2018) ).