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Modified Graphitic Carbon Nitride Nanosheets for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution
Author(s) -
Zhou Xunfu,
Zhu Yating,
Gao Qiongzhi,
Zhang Shengsen,
Ge Chunyu,
Yang Siyuan,
Zhong Xinhua,
Fang Yueping
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
chemsuschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.412
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1864-564X
pISSN - 1864-5631
DOI - 10.1002/cssc.201901960
Subject(s) - photocatalysis , graphitic carbon nitride , materials science , carbon nitride , solar fuel , water splitting , chemical engineering , visible spectrum , nanotechnology , catalysis , chemistry , optoelectronics , organic chemistry , engineering
Considerable research efforts have been devoted to develop noble‐metal‐free cocatalysts coupled with semiconductors for highly efficient photocatalytic H 2 evolution as part of the challenge toward solar‐to‐fuel conversion. Herein, a new cocatalyst with excellent activity in the electrocatalytic H 2 evolution reaction (HER) that is based on Co sheathed in N‐doped graphitic carbon nanosheets (Co@NC) was fabricated by a surfactant‐assisted pyrolysis approach and then coupled with g‐C 3 N 4 nanosheets to construct a 2 D‐2 D g‐C 3 N 4 /Co@NC composite photocatalyst by a simple grinding method. As a result of advantages in effective electrocatalytic HER activity, suitable electronic band structure, and rapid interfacial charge transfer brought about by the 2 D‐2 D spatial configuration, the g‐C 3 N 4 /Co@NC photocatalyst that contained 4 wt % Co@NC presented a high photocatalytic H 2 generation rate of 15.67 μmol h −1 under visible‐light irradiation ( λ ≥400 nm), which was 104.5 times higher than that of pristine g‐C 3 N 4 . The optimum g‐C 3 N 4 /Co@NC photocatalyst showed a high apparent quantum efficiency of 10.82 % at λ =400 nm.