Developing highly efficient photocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) by solar-driven water splitting is a great challenge. Here, we study the atomistic origin of interface properties and the HER performance of all-inorganic iodide perovskite β-CsPbI/2H-MoS heterostructures with interfacial vacancy defects using first-principles calculations. Both CsI/MoS and PbI/MoS heterostructures have strong binding and dipole moment, which are enhanced by interfacial iodine vacancies ().
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