Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 11, Issue 6, Pages 6174-6183Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b22434
Keywords
Photocatalysis; CO2 reduction; solar fuels; C3N4; FeWO4; Z-scheme
Funding
- DST Nanomission (Thematic Unit), Government of India [SR/NM/TP-13/2016]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/R035407/1]
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Photocatalytic reduction of CO2 to renewable solar fuels is considered to be a promising strategy to simultaneously solve both global warming and energy crises. However, development of a superior photocatalytic system with high product selectivity for CO2 reduction under solar light is the prime requisite. Herein, a series of nature-inspired Z-scheme g C3N4/FeWO4 composites are prepared for higher performance and selective CO2 reduction to CO as solar fuel under solar light. The novel direct Z-scheme coupling of the visible light-active FeWO4 nanoparticles with C3N4 nanosheets is seen to exhibit excellent performance for CO production with a rate of 6 mu mol/g/h at an ambient temperature, almost 6 times higher compared to pristine C3N4 and 15 times higher than pristine FeWO4. More importantly, selectivity for CO is 100% over other carbon products from CO, reduction and more than 90% over. H-2 products from water splitting. Our results clearly demonstrate that the staggered band structure between FeWO4 and C3N4 reflecting the nature-inspired Z-scheme system not only favors superior spatial separation of the electron hole pair in g-C3N4/FeWO4 but also shows good reusability. The present work provides unprecedented insights for constructing the direct Z-scheme by mimicking the nature for high performance and selective photocatalytic CO2 reduction into solar fuels under solar light.
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