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ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING
Volume 7, Issue 15, Pages 13569-13575Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b03334
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Cocatalyst; Capacitance; Molybdenum nitride; Photocatalytic H-2 evolution; Non-noble metal
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- National First-rate Discipline Construction Project of Ningxia (Chemical Engineering and Technology)
- Major Innovation Projects for Building Firstclass Universities in China's Western Region [ZKZD2017003]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [21862014]
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Earth-abundant catalysts (cocatalysts) for photocatalysis, photoelectrocatalysis, and electrocatalysis have attracted increased attention due to the potentially reduced cost for large-scale application. Here, we first report and demonstrate that improving the capacitance of cocatalysts of Mo2N by modifying the morphology and orientations could produce a better photocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity on CdS. Among rod, sheet, and sphere shapes of Mo2N, the (111)-orientated rod h-Mo2N was found to be the most efficient. The hydrogen evolution activity of h-Mo2N/CdS is 6.1 times that of the Pt/CdS and 30.1 times that of the bare CdS. A controlling experiment showed that the superior photocatalytic HER activity can be attributed to the higher capacitance of h-Mo2N. This study opens up a pathway to develop novel cocatalysts for photocatalyst by adjusting the capacitance through morphology controls.
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