Journal
ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING
Volume 7, Issue 11, Pages 10084-10094Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b01516
Keywords
Photocatalysis; H-2 production; Cocatalyst; Sn; TiO2
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51872221, 21771142]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [WUT 2019IB002, 195220005]
- 111 Project [B18038]
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The exploitation and preparation of novel non noble-metal cocatalysts are particularly crucial to develop high activity photocatalytic hydrogen-generation materials. In this study, metallic Sn nanoparticle, a new hydrogen-generation cocatalyst, was effectively integrated with the conventional TiO2 photocatalyst to greatly boost the hydrogen-production reaction via a direct photoinduced method. Herein, the direct photoinduced synthesis of Sn nanoparticle-deposited TiO2 photocatalysts and their enhanced H-2-generation activity can be easily and simultaneously realized in an ethylene glycol-ethanol system. The Sn nano particles were very small (ca. 2 nm) and uniformly deposited onto the TiO2 surface to synthesize highly efficient Sn/TiO2 photo catalysts via the, formation of Sn(II)-EG complex molecules and their following in situ photoreduction method. Photocatalytic results indicated that metallic Sn cocatalyst could dramatically promote the H-2-generation activity of TiO2 photocatalyst, and the resultant Sn/TiO2(3 wt %) presented the highest H-2-production rate with a value of 553.1 mu mol h(-1) g(-1), which is 43.9 times as that of pure TiO2 (12.6 mu mol h(-1) g(-1)). Thus, an electron-cocatalyst-mediated mechanism is raised to explain the promoted H-2 generation efficiency of TiO2 photocatalyst, namely, the metallic Sn cocatalyst can act as the electron receiver to quickly capture photoexcited electrons and serve as the interfacial hydrogen-generation site to enhance the hydrogen-generation rate. Considering the facile synthetic route, earth abundance, and high activity, the metallic Sn cocatalyst would have enormous prospect for the development of efficient photocatalysts applied in different fields.
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