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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
卷 125, 期 12, 页码 6870-6876出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c00102
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- Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences, Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FC02-04ER15533]
- Department of Science & Technology, India
The synthesis of CdS and Au nanoparticles in different layers of bipolar membranes allows for the preparation of photocatalytically active BPM films. This design opens up new opportunities for water splitting and CO2 reduction through vectorial electron transfer between the two layers.
Bipolar membranes (BPMs) which consist of a cation exchange layer (CEL) and anion exchange layer (AEL) are quite effective as membranes in gas phase electrolyzers. However, such membranes can also serve as a host to embed photocatalysts and electrocatalysts. By selectively exchanging cations with Cd2+ and anions with AuCl4-, we were able to synthesize CdS and Au nanoparticles in CEL and AEL layers, respectively, through sequential chemical and photocatalytic reactions. Reacting Cd2+ with thioacetamide formed the CdS nanoparticles in CEL. The photogenerated electrons from CdS were then used to reduce AuCl4- in an H-cell configuration to produce Au nanoparticles in AEL and thus prepare a photocatalytically active BPM film (referred to as a CdS/BPM/Au film). Such a concerted design of BPM allows vectorial electron transfer between two layers of BPM leading to its transfer to an acceptor molecule (methyl viologen) in solution. Designing photocatalytically active BPM and understanding the vectorial electron flow between two separate ion-selective layers offer new opportunities in water splitting and CO2 reduction.
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