%0 Journal Article %A Qu, Y %A Sun, N %A Humayun, M %A Zada, A %A Xie, Y %A Tang, J %A Jing, L %A Fu, H %D 2018 %F discovery:10086224 %I ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY %J Sustainable Energy & Fuels %N 3 %P 549-552 %T Improved visible-light activities of nanocrystalline CdS by coupling with ultrafine NbN with lattice matching for hydrogen evolution %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10086224/ %V 2 %X Metallic ultrafine NbN with lattice matching to nanocrystalline CdS could replace the expensive platinum for efficiently trapping photogenerated electrons, enhancing charge separation and then activating the preferentially adsorbed H_{2}O to produce H_{2}, mainly confirmed by Kelvin probe experiments, Mott–Schottky plots, amount of ˙OH produced, electrochemical experiments and density-functional-theory calculations. %Z This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.