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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 47, Issue 2, Pages 1006-1015Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2021.10.095
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Edge-sulfonated graphene; Benzenesulfonic acid; Sulfonate ions; TiO2; Photocatalytic hydrogen evolution
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51872221]
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Graphene-modified photocatalytic system plays a crucial role in promoting the H-2 evolution reaction efficiency, thanks to the synergistic action of graphene as a photoelectron cocatalyst and sulfonate ions as active H+-adsorbed sites.
Graphene as a prospective cocatalyst can obviously promote the photocatalytic H-2-evolution performance of photocatalysts by rapidly transferring photogenerated electrons. For an efficient graphene-modified photocatalytic system for H-2 evolution, the fast H-2-evolution reaction is as important as the rapid photoelectron transfer via graphene. In this paper, edge-sulfonated graphene (rGO-SO3H) with high H+-adsorbed activity was successfully synthesized by the formation of covalent bonds between graphene and benzenesulfonic acid through a diazotization reaction, which couples with TiO2 nanoparticles to prepare rGO-SO3H/TiO2 photocatalyst for accelerating H-2-evolution reaction. The results showed that the rGO-SO3H/TiO2 displayed the highest H-2-production rate of 197.1 mmol h(-1) g(-1) as high as 5.38, 2.81, and 3.40 times of TiO2, rGO/TiO2, and SO3H/TiO2, respectively. The improved efficiency of rGO-SO3H/TiO2 can be attributable to the synergetic action of graphene as a photoelectron cocatalyst and sulfonate ions as H+-adsorbed active sites. This study provides a new insight for the efficient hydrogen-evolution graphene-based photocatalysts. (C) 2021 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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