A [001]-Oriented Hittorf's phosphorus nanorods/polymeric carbon nitride heterostructure for boosting wide-spectrum-responsive photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from pure water

Yukun Zhu; Chunxiao Lv; Zhuocheng Yin; Jun Ren; Xianfeng Yang; Chung-li Dong; Rongsheng Cai; Yu-cheng Huang; Wolfgang Theis; Shaohua Shen; Dongjiang Yang; Hongwei Liu

doi:10.1002/anie.201911503

A [001]-Oriented Hittorf's phosphorus nanorods/polymeric carbon nitride heterostructure for boosting wide-spectrum-responsive photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from pure water

Yukun Zhu, Chunxiao Lv, Zhuocheng Yin, Jun Ren, Xianfeng Yang, Chung-li Dong, Rongsheng Cai, Yu-cheng Huang, Wolfgang Theis, Shaohua Shen, Dongjiang Yang, Hongwei Liu

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Red phosphorus is a promising photocatalyst with wide visible-light absorption up to 700 nm, but the fast charge recombination limits its photocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity. Now, [001]-oriented Hittorf's phosphorus (HP) nanorods were successfully grown on polymeric carbon nitride (PCN) by a chemical vapor deposition strategy. Compared with the bare PCN and HP, the optimized PCN@HP hybrid exhibited a significantly enhanced photocatalytic activity, with HER rates reaching 33.2 and 17.5 μmol h ⁻¹ from pure water under simulated solar light and visible light irradiation, respectively. It was theoretically and experimentally indicated that the strong electronic coupling between PCN and [001]-oriented HP nanorods gave rise to the enhanced visible light absorption and the greatly accelerated photoinduced electron–hole separation and transfer, which benefited the photocatalytic HER performance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	868-873
Number of pages	6
Journal	Angewandte Chemie (International Edition)
Volume	59
Issue number	2
Early online date	30 Oct 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201911503
Publication status	Published - 7 Jan 2020

Keywords

Oriented Hittorf's Phosphorus
Polymeric Carbon Nitride
heterostructure
water splitting
Pure water
nanorods
heterostructures
oriented Hittorf's phosphorus
polymeric carbon nitride

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Zhu, Y., Lv, C., Yin, Z., Ren, J., Yang, X., Dong, C., Cai, R., Huang, Y., Theis, W., Shen, S., Yang, D., & Liu, H. (2020). A [001]-Oriented Hittorf's phosphorus nanorods/polymeric carbon nitride heterostructure for boosting wide-spectrum-responsive photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from pure water. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition) , 59(2), 868-873. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201911503

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