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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 141, 期 28, 页码 11219-11229出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b04556
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- ERC [291482]
- Christian Doppler Research Association (Austrian Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs)
- Christian Doppler Research Association (National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development)
- OMV Group
This study addresses the light intensity dependence of charge accumulation in a photocatalyst suspension, and its impact on both charge recombination kinetics and steady-state H-2 evolution efficiency. Cyanamide surface functionalized melon-type carbon nitride ((CNx)-C-NCN) has been selected as an example of emerging carbon nitrides photocatalysts because of its excellent charge storage ability. Transient spectroscopic studies (from ps to s) show that the bimolecular recombination of photogenerated electrons and holes in (CNx)-C-NCN can be well described by a random walk model. Remarkably, the addition of hole scavengers such as 4-methylbenzyl alcohol can lead to similar to 400-fold faster recombination kinetics (lifetime shortening to similar to 10 ps). We show that this acceleration is not the direct result of ultrafast hole extraction by the scavenger, but is rather caused by long-lived electron accumulation in (CNx)-C-NCN after hole extraction. The dispersive pseudo-first order recombination kinetics become controlled by the density of accumulated electrons. H-2 production and steady-state spectroscopic measurements indicate that the accelerated recombination caused by electron accumulation limits the H-2 generation efficiency. The addition of a reversible electron acceptor and mediator, methyl viologen (MV2+), accelerates the extraction of electrons from the (CNx)-C-NCN and increases the H-2 production efficiency under one sun irradiation by more than 30%. These results demonstrate quantitatively that while long-lived electrons are essential to drive photoinduced H-2 generation in many photocatalysts, excessive electron accumulation may result in accelerated recombination losses and lower performance, and thus highlight the importance of efficient electron and hole extraction in enabling efficient water splitting photocatalysts.
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