期刊
APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
卷 237, 期 -, 页码 166-174出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2018.05.071
关键词
Metal-free carbon based photocatalysts; Overall water splitting; Controllable carbon defects; Defects as oxidation sites; Selectable electron pathway
资金
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51725204, 51572179, 21471106, 21771132, 21501126]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20161216]
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD)
Hydrogen production from overall water splitting by photocatalyst is an ultimate clean and renewable energy strategy. Recent developments show that carbon based materials are considerable photocatalysts for overall water splitting under visible light because of their high activity, high stability, low-cost, easy fabrication and structural diversity. However, it still lacks a systematic study and deep understanding on the working mechanism of the carbon based photocatalysts. Herein, we show the fabrication of a carbon photocatalyst with abundant carbon defects created by removing the nitrogen atoms from a N-doped precursor. The active defects bond with water molecules during the photocatalytic reaction, which then work as oxidation sites for O-2 generation. We also demonstrate an accessible strategy to produce more defects to observably enhance the photocatalytic activity (around 10 times) as well as to select between the 2-electron/2-electron and the 4-electron pathway water splitting. The synthesized photocatalyst is efficient in photocatalytic visible-light overall water splitting with an optimum H-2 and O-2 production of 2.54 and 1.25 mu mol h(-1), respectively. Moreover, the quantum efficiency and solar to hydrogen (STH) efficiency were measured to be 2.04% for wavelength lambda = 420 +/- 20 nm and 0.1% using AM 1.5 G, respectively.
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