Journal
NANOMATERIALS
Volume 12, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nano12101744
Keywords
biomass-carbon; hierarchical porous structure; photocatalytic; hydrogen production
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21805280, 51672271, 52073286, 21875252]
- Youth Innovation Foundation of Xiamen City [3502Z20206085]
- Opening Project of PCOSS, Xiamen University [201907]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB20000000]
- Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province [2006L2005]
- Key Program of Frontier Science, CAS [QYZDJ-SSW-SLH033]
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Porous biochar materials prepared with lotus pollen as a carbon source exhibit excellent photocatalytic hydrogen production performance and higher incident photon-current efficiency (IPCE) compared to commercial carbon black. This is attributed to the unique surface wrinkling, hierarchical porous structure, and N, P self-doping behavior of the lotus pollen carbon samples, which enhance light utilization efficiency and carrier separation/transfer efficiency.
Porous biochar materials prepared with biomass as a precursor have received widespread attention. In this work, lotus pollen (LP) was used as the carbon source, a variety of the pollen carbon photocatalyst were prepared by a two-step roasting method. A series of characterizations were carried out on the prepared samples, and it was found that the average particle size was about 40 mu m. They also exhibit a typical amorphous carbon structure and a porous structure with a network-like interconnected surface. The photocatalytic hydrogen production performances of lotus pollen carbon (LP-C) and commercial carbon black (CB) were measured under the full spectrum illumination. LP-C-600 showed the best hydrogen production performance (3.5 mu mol center dot g(-1)center dot h(-1)). In addition, the photoelectrochemical (PEC) measurement results confirmed that the LP-C materials show better incident photon-current efficiency (IPCE) performance than the CB materials in the neutral electrolyte. This is because the unique surface wrinkling, hierarchical porous structure, and the N, P self-doping behavior of the LP-C samples are able to improve the light utilization efficiency and the carrier separation/transfer efficiency, thereby further improving the overall hydrogen production efficiency.
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