title: Aqueous-solution route to zinc telluride films for application to CO₂ reduction.
abstract: As a photocathode for CO2 reduction, zinc-blende zinc telluride (ZnTe) was directly formed on a Zn/ZnO nanowire substrate by a simple dissolution-recrystallization mechanism without any surfactant. With the most negative conduction-band edge among p-type semiconductors, this new photocatalyst showed efficient and stable CO formation in photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction at -0.2--0.7 V versus RHE without a sacrificial reagent.
authors.affiliation: School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), 50 UNIST-gil, Ulsan, 689-798 (South Korea).
authors.forename: Ji-Wook
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Jang
authors.forename: Seungho
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Ganesan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Magesh
authors.forename: Youn Jeong
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Jang
authors.forename: Jae Young
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Won Yong
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jeong Kon
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Seo
authors.forename: Sungjee
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Kun-Hong
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Jae Sung
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Lee
keywords: artificial photosynthesis; photocathodes; photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction; solution synthesis; zinc telluride