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Anisotropic Janus SiP2 Monolayer as a Photocatalyst for Water Splitting

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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
卷 12, 期 9, 页码 2464-2470

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03841

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  1. Natural Science Foundation of China [21873017, 21573037]
  2. Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China [2013M541283]
  3. Natural Science Foundation of Jilin Province [20190201231JC]
  4. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

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The SiP2 monolayer, identified through ab initio swarm-intelligence search calculations, exhibits excellent photocatalytic efficiency and semiconductor properties. It allows simultaneous oxygen and hydrogen evolution half reactions, has high anisotropic carrier mobility, and strong optical absorption in the visible-to-ultraviolet range of the solar spectrum, ensuring efficient utilization of solar energy.
The design of materials meeting the rigorous requirements of photocatalytic water splitting is still a challenge. Anisotropic Janus 2D materials exhibit great potential due to outstandingly high photocatalytic efficiency. Unfortunately, these materials are scarce. By means of ab initio swarm-intelligence search calculations, we identify a SiP2 monolayer with Janus structure (i.e., out-of-plane asymmetry). The material turns out to be semiconducting with an indirect band gap of 2.39 eV enclosing the redox potentials of water. Notably, the oxygen and hydrogen evolution half reactions can happen simultaneously at the Si and P atoms, respectively, driven merely by the radiation-induced electrons and holes. The carrier mobility is found to be anisotropic and high, up to 10(-4) cm(2) V-1 s(-1), facilitating fast transport of the photogenerated carriers. The SiP2 monolayer shows remarkably strong optical absorption in the visible-to-ultraviolet range of the solar spectrum, ensuring efficient utilization of the solar energy.

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