
74 Producing Fuels and Fine Chemicals from Biomass Using Nanomaterials
Improved contact between BiVO
4
particles with transparent conducting electrode using
RGO scaffold also contributes to this photoresponse enhancement (Figure 3.11).
In Yu’s study,
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a high efciency of the photocatalytic H
2
production was achieved
using graphene nanosheets decorated with CdS clusters as visible-light-driven photo-
catalysts. These nanosized composites reach a high H
2
-production rate of 1.12 mmol
h
–1
(about 4.87 times higher than that of pure CdS nanoparticles) at graphene content
of 1.0 wt% and Pt 0.5 wt% under visible-light irradiation and an apparent quan