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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2020
The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, Amherst, NY (US);
The Texas A&m University System, College Station, TX (US);
Sarbajit Banerjee, College Station, TX (US);
David F. Watson, Williamsville, NY (US);
Justin L. Andrews, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Junsang Cho, Mishawaka, IN (US);
Nuwanthi Suwandaratne, Amherst, NY (US);
Aaron Sheng, Buffalo, NY (US);
THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, College Station, TX (US);
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, Amherst, NY (US);
Abstract
The subject invention pertains to the synthesis and characterization of VO/CdE NW/QD heterostructures. The VO/CdE heterostructures are versatile new materials constructs for light harvesting, charge separation, and the photocatalytic production of solar fuels; polymorphism of VOand compositional alloying of both components provides for a substantial design space for tuning of interfacial energy offsets. Also provided are a new class of type-II heterostructures composed of cadmium chalcogenide QDs (CdE where E=S, Se, or Te) and α-VOnanowires (NWs). The synthesis and characterization of VO/CdE NW/QD heterostructures, prepared via successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR) and linker-assisted assembly (LAA), the characterization of their photoinduced charge-transfer reactivity using transient absorption spectroscopy, and their performance in the photocatalytic reduction of protons to hydrogen are also disclosed.