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Bandgap Engineering of Melon using Highly Reduced Graphene Oxide for Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Evolution

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ADVANCED MATERIALS
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WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202301342

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2D materials; HRG@melon; hydrogen evolution; melon; PEC water splitting

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This study reports the use of highly reduced graphene oxide (HRG) to engineer the bandgap of melon, improving its performance in photocatalytic reactions. Experimental results show that the addition of HRG significantly increases the photocurrent density, and this is validated by theoretical calculations.
The uncondensed form of polymeric carbon nitrides (PCN), generally known as melon, is a stacked 2D structure of poly(aminoimino)heptazine. Melon is used as a photocatalyst in solar energy conversion applications, but suffers from poor photoconversion efficiency due to weak optical absorption in the visible spectrum, high activation energy, and inefficient separation of photoexcited charge carriers. Experimental and theoretical studies are reported to engineer the bandgap of melon with highly reduced graphene oxide (HRG). Three HRG@melon nanocomposites with different HRG:melon ratios (0.5%, 1%, and 2%) are prepared. The 1% HRG@melon nanocomposite shows higher photocurrent density (71 mu A cm(-2)) than melon (24 mu A cm(-2)) in alkaline conditions. The addition of a hole scavenger further increases the photocurrent density to 630 mu A cm-2 relative to the reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE). These experimental results are validated by calculations using density functional theory (DFT), which revealed that HRG results in a significant charge redistribution and an improved photocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER).

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