Abstract
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 |
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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 | |
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
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Chemistry(all)
- Catalysis
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