Journal
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 58, Issue 12, Pages 3804-3808Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201812773
Keywords
CO2 reduction; photocatalysis; quantum confinement; quantum dots
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- National Key R&D Program of China [2016YFB0600901]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21525626, U1662111, 21722608]
- Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities [B06006]
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The production of CH3OH from the photocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction (PCRR) presents a promising route for the clean utilization of renewable resources, but charge recombination, an unsatisfying stability and a poor selectivity limit its practical application. In this paper, we present the design and fabrication of 0D/2D materials with polymeric C3N4 nanosheets and CdSe quantum dots (QDs) to enhance the separation and reduce the diffusion length of charge carriers. The rapid outflow of carriers also restrains selfcorrosion and consequently enhances the stability. Furthermore, based on quantum confinement effects of the QDs, the energy of the electrons could be adjusted to a level that inhibits the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER, the main competitive reaction to PCRR) and improves the selectivity and activity for CH3OH production from the PCRR. The band structures of photocatalysts with various CdSe particle sizes were also investigated quantitatively to establish the relationship between the band energy and the photocatalytic performance.
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