A Metal Sulfide Photocatalyst for Solar Hydrogen Production

　Prof. Miyauchi and co-workers from Tokyo Institute of Technology reported their study on Chemical Communications about a metal sulfide photocatalyst material development[1].
Producing hydrogen through photocatalysis method is very essential for our future energy. They succeeded in developing a new catalyst using ubiquitous elements as SnS, which shows a high performance and low cost. And comparing the ionization potential of the samples measured by AC-3, the relationship between the ionization potential and the catalysis performance could be clearly found.
Therefore, AC-3 can be your best partner and contribute to those advanced materials development.

Fig.1 Ionization potential measurement by AC-3[1].

[1] Y. Shiga, N. Umezawa, N. Srinivasan, S. Koyasu, E. Sakai and M. Miyauchi, A metal sulfide photocatalyst composed of ubiquitous elements for solar hydrogen production, Chem. Commun.,
2016, 52, 7470--7473; https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CC03199D