期刊
JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
卷 608, 期 -, 页码 1268-1277出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.10.108
关键词
Photocatalysis; Hydrogen evolution; Cyano group; Improved ordered structure
资金
- National Natural Science Foun-dation of China [21771142, 52073263]
- 111 Project
In this study, the ethyl acetate-mediated method was developed to improve the crystallinity and prepare efficient g-C3N4 photocatalysts. The resultant cyano group-enriched crystalline g-C3N4 photocatalysts (CC-CN) displayed significantly enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen-evolution performance. The improved performance was attributed to the synergy of improved ordered structure and abundant cyano groups, promoting efficient transfer and separation of photoinduced charges as well as excellent interfacial hydrogen-generation reaction.
The molten salt-assisted route is one of the most important methods to improve the crystallinity of conventionally disordered bulk graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4). However, the residual potassium ions from potassium chloride/lithium chloride molten salt can greatly impact the ordered structure of g-C3N4 and serve as the recombination centers of photoinduced carriers, causing limited photocatalytic hydrogenevolution performance. In this article, the ethyl acetate-mediated method is first developed to not only further improve the ordered structure of traditional crystalline g-C3N4, but also produce more cyano groups for preparing highly efficient g-C3N4 photocatalysts. Herein, the ethyl acetate can gradually hydrolyze to produce hydrogen ions, which can promote the more ordered sheet-like structure and more cyano groups by effective removal of residual potassium ions in the traditional crystalline g-C3N4, leading to the formation of cyano group-enriched crystalline g-C3N4 photocatalysts (CC-CN). As a result, the resultant CC-CN displays the remarkably enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen-evolution performance (295.30 mmol h-1 with an apparent quantum efficiency about 12.61%), in comparison to the bulk g-C3N4 (14.97 mmol h-1) and traditional crystalline g-C3N4 (24.60 mmol h-1). The great improvement of photocatalytic performance can mainly be ascribed to the synergism of improved ordered structure and abundant cyano groups, namely, the efficient transfer , separation of photoinduced charges as well as excellent interfacial hydrogen-generation reaction, respectively. The present work may deliver new strategies to prepare other high-crystalline photocatalysts with great efficiency. (c) 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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