Journal
SMALL
Volume 15, Issue 50, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201905166
Keywords
d-band position; graphitic carbon nitride; photocatalytic hydrogen evolution; single-atom catalysis; synergistic active centers
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51772156, 51872144]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20180019, BK20171423]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2018M640489]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [30917015102, 30918014103]
- PAPD of Jiangsu
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Ontario government for the Ontario Early Research Award Program
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Scalable and sustainable solar hydrogen production via photocatalytic water splitting requires extremely active and stable light-harvesting semiconductors to fulfill the stringent requirements of suitable energy band position and rapid interfacial charge transfer process. Motivated by this point, increasing attention has been given to the development of photocatalysts comprising intimately interfaced photoabsorbers and cocatalysts. Herein, a simple one-step approach is reported to fabricate a high-efficiency photocatalytic system, in which single-site dispersed iron atoms are rationally integrated on the intrinsic structure of the porous crimped graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) polymer. A detailed analysis of the formation process shows that a stable complex is generated by spontaneously coordinating dicyandiamidine nitrate with iron ions in isopropanol, thus leading to a relatively complicated polycondensation reaction upon thermal treatment. The correlation of experimental and computational results confirms that optimized electronic structures of Fe@g-C3N4 with an appropriate d-band position and negatively shifting Fermi level can be achieved, which effectively gains the reducibility of electrons and creates more active sites for the photocatalytic reactions. As a result, the Fe@g-C3N4 exhibits a highlighted intramolecular synergistic effect, performing greatly enhanced solar-photon-driven activities, including excellent photocatalytic hydrogen evolution rate (3390 mu mol h(-1) g(-1), lambda > 420 nm) and a reliable apparent quantum efficiency value of 6.89% at 420 nm.
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