Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 11, Issue 44, Pages 41313-41320Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b13540
Keywords
seawater spitting; Pt-free cocatalyst; organic photocatalyst; carbon-encapsulated Ni2P; visible-light-driven hydrogen production
Funding
- NSF of China [21676020]
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [17L20060]
- Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST [2017QNRC001]
- Start-up fund for talent introduction of Beijing University of Chemical Technology [buctrc201420, buctrc201714]
- Talent cultivation of State Key Laboratory of Organic - Inorganic Composites
- Distinguished scientist program at BUCT [buctylkxj02]
- 111 project of China [B14004]
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Organic photocatalysts are widely used to mimic artificial photosynthesis for sustainable solar-driven hydrogen production from water splitting. However, few photocatalytic H-2 production is reported using seawater, which is a significantly important parameter for practical application, and most organic photocatalysts employed precious and scarce Pt as a cocatalyst. Herein, we report an organic hybridized photocatalyst (termed COP-TF@CNi2P), carbon-encapsulated nickel phosphide, as a cocatalyst loaded on a fully conjugated organic polymer, which is applied for stable and efficient H-2 generation from seawater splitting. Both experiments and theory calculations suggest that the carbon layers covered around nickel phosphide not only can strengthen pi-pi interactions with the polymers but also can attract the photoinduced electrons from COP-TF to the surface of CNi2P, which contributes to expedite exciton dissociation. As a result, the as-synthesized COP-TF@CNi2P achieves a remarkable photocatalytic H-2 production efficiency up to 2500 mu mol g(-1) h(-1) (lambda >= 400 nm) from seawater and even maintains 92% of initial efficiency after 16 intermittent cycles, which lasts for half a month.
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