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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 139, Issue 8, Pages 3021-3026Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b11878
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21533007, 11621063, U1532265, 21603207, 11435012, 11305174, 11422547]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [WK2310000054]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2016M590581]
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Direct and efficient photocatalytic water splitting is critical for sustainable conversion and storage of renewable solar energy. Here, we propose a conceptual design of two-dimensional C3N4-based in-plane heterostructure to achieve fast spatial transfer of photoexcited electrons for realizing highly efficient and spontaneous overall water splitting. This unique plane heterostructural carbon ring (C-ring)-C3N4 nanosheet can synchronously expedite electron hole pair separation and promote photoelectron transport through the local in-plane pi-conjugated electric field, synergistically elongating the photocarrier diffusion length and lifetime by 10 times relative to those achieved with pristine g-C3N4. As a result, the in-plane (C-ring)-C3N4 heterostructure could efficiently split pure water under light irradiation with prominent H-2 production rate up to 371 mu mol g(-1) h(-1) and a notable quantum yield of 5% at 420 nm.
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