Journal
SMALL
Volume 16, Issue 28, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202002411
Keywords
edge confinement; photocatalytic CO2 reduction; porous few-layer g-C3N4; single-atomic photocatalysis; unsaturated Ni-N coordination
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51672099, 21403079]
- Sichuan Science and Technology Program [2019JDRC0027]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2017-QR-25]
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It is greatly intriguing yet remains challenging to construct single-atomic photocatalysts with stable surface free energy, favorable for well-defined atomic coordination and photocatalytic carrier mobility during the photoredox process. Herein, an unsaturated edge confinement strategy is defined by coordinating single-atomic-site Ni on the bottom-up synthesized porous few-layer g-C3N4 (namely, Ni-5-CN) via a self-limiting method. This Ni-5-CN system with a few isolated Ni clusters distributed on the edge of g-C3N4 is beneficial to immobilize the nonedged single-atomic-site Ni species, thus achieving a high single-atomic active site density. Remarkably, the Ni-5-CN system exhibits comparably high photocatalytic activity for CO2 reduction, giving the CO generation rate of 8.6 mu mol g(-1) h(-1) under visible-light illumination, which is 7.8 times that of pure porous few-layer g-C3N4 (namely, CN, 1.1 mu mol g(-1) h(-1)). X-ray absorption spectrometric analysis unveils that the cationic coordination environment of single-atomic-site Ni center, which is formed by Ni-N doping-intercalation the first coordination shell, motivates the superiority in synergistic N-Ni-N connection and interfacial carrier transfer. The photocatalytic mechanistic prediction confirms that the introduced unsaturated Ni-N coordination favorably binds with CO2, and enhances the rate-determining step of intermediates for CO generation.
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