Journal
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 56, Issue 6, Pages 1653-1657Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201611605
Keywords
carbon nitride; chemical energy storage; photocatalyst; semiconductor; water splitting
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Cluster of Excellence UniCat) [EXC 314-2, ME 4387/1-1]
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Solar light harvesting by photocatalytic H-2 evolution from water could solve the problem of greenhouse gas emission from fossil fuels with alternative clean energy. However, the development of more efficient and robust catalytic systems remains a great challenge for the technological use on a large scale. Here we report the synthesis of a sol-gel prepared mesoporous graphitic carbon nitride (sg-CN) combined with nickel phosphide (Ni2P) which acts as a superior co-catalyst for efficient photocatalytic H-2 evolution by visible light. This integrated system shows a much higher catalytic activity than the physical mixture of Ni2P and sg-CN or metallic nickel on sg-CN under similar conditions. Time-resolved photoluminescence and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopic studies revealed that the enhanced carrier transfer at the Ni2P-sg-CN heterojunction is the prime source for improved activity.
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