Journal
SCIENCE BULLETIN
Volume 61, Issue 4, Pages 292-301Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-016-0995-0
Keywords
Graphitic carbon nitride; Ferrites; Photocatalytic water splitting; Solar hydrogen conversion
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51323011, 51236007]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET-13-0455]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province [2014KW07-02]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20141212]
- Nano Research Program of Suzhou City [ZXG201442, ZXG2013003]
- Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China [201335]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
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The charge carrier separation and surface catalytic redox reactions are of primary importance as elementary steps in photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. In this study, both of these two processes in photocatalytic hydrogen evolution over graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) were greatly promoted with the earth-abundant ferrites (Co, Ni)Fe2O4 modification. CoFe2O4 was further demonstrated to be a better modifier for g-C3N4 as compared to NiFe2O4, due to the more efficient charge carrier transfer as well as superior surface oxidative catalytic activity. When together loading CoFe2O4 and reductive hydrogen production electrocatalyst Pt onto g-C3N4, the obtained Pt/g-C3N4/CoFe2O4 photocatalyst achieved visible-light (lambda > 420 nm) hydrogen production rate 3.5 times as high as Pt/g-C3N4, with the apparent quantum yield reaching 3.35 % at 420 nm.
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