Journal
CHEMSUSCHEM
Volume 13, Issue 5, Pages 876-881Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201903437
Keywords
C3N4; charge separation; heterojunction; long-range electric field; photocatalysis
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51302261, 51472241]
- Natural Science Foundation of Fujian province [2015J01633, 2018J01587]
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Semiconductors and metals can form an Ohmic contact with an electric field pointing to the metal, or a Schottky contact with an electric field pointing to the semiconductor. If these two types of heterojunctions are constructed on a single nanoparticle, the two electric fields may cause a synergistic effect and increase the separation rate of the photogenerated electrons and holes. Metal Ni and Ag nanoparticles were successively loaded on the graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) surface by precipitation and photoreduction in the hope of forming hybrid heterojunctions on single nanoparticles. TEM/high-resolution TEM images showed that Ag and Ni were loaded on different locations on C3N4, which indicated that during the photoreduction reaction Ag+ obtained electrons from C3N4 in the reduction reaction, whereas oxidation reactions proceeded on Ni nanoparticles. Photocatalytic hydrogen production experiments showed that C3N4-based hybrid heterojunctions can greatly improve the photocatalytic activity of materials. The possible reason is that two heterojunctions could form a long-range electric field similar to the p-i-n structure in semiconductors. Most of the photogenerated carriers were generated and then separated in this electric field, thereby increasing the separation rate of electrons and holes. This further improved the photocatalytic activity of C3N4.
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