摘要

Herein, we report a facile and rapid dry route rather than a solution process to prepare crystalline CdS nanoparticles via microwave-assisted thermolysis of a Cd-thiourea complex. CdS prepared by 35 min microwave heating offers a H-2 generation rate of 103.2 mu mol h(-1) that is comparable to the H-2 generation rate of commercially available CdS (96.3 mu mol h(-1)). Importantly, the present synthetic strategy can be generalized to prepare other metal sulfides, including ZnS and MoS2, and ZnS-CdS solid solutions.