State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan, 430070, China.
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia.
Adv Mater. 2019 Oct;31(42):e1902868. doi: 10.1002/adma.201902868. Epub 2019 Sep 6.
Photocatalytic CO reduction is an effective way to simultaneously mitigate the greenhouse effect and the energy crisis. Herein, CdS hollow spheres, on which monolayer nitrogen-doped graphene is in situ grown by chemical vapor deposition, are applied for realizing effective photocatalytic CO reduction. The constructed photocatalyst possesses a hollow interior for strengthening light absorption, a thin shell for shortening the electron migration distance, tight adhesion for facilitating separation and transfer of carriers, and a monolayer nitrogen-doped graphene surface for adsorbing and activating CO molecules. Achieving seamless contact between a photocatalyst and a cocatalyst, which provides a pollution-free and large-area transport interface for carriers, is an effective strategy for improving the photocatalytic CO reduction performance. Therefore, the yield of CO and CH , as dominating products, can be increased by four and five times than that of pristine CdS hollow spheres, respectively. This work emphasizes the importance of contact interface regulation between the photocatalyst and the cocatalyst and provides new ideas for the seamless and large-area contact of heterojunctions.
光催化 CO 还原是同时缓解温室效应和能源危机的有效方法。在此,通过化学气相沉积在 CdS 空心球上原位生长单层氮掺杂石墨烯,用于实现有效的光催化 CO 还原。所构建的光催化剂具有空心内部以增强光吸收、薄壳以缩短电子迁移距离、紧密的附着力以促进载流子的分离和转移以及单层氮掺杂石墨烯表面以吸附和激活 CO 分子。实现光催化剂和助催化剂之间的无缝接触,为载流子提供无污染且大面积的传输界面,是提高光催化 CO 还原性能的有效策略。因此,作为主要产物的 CO 和 CH 的产量分别比原始 CdS 空心球提高了 4 倍和 5 倍。这项工作强调了光催化剂和助催化剂之间接触界面调节的重要性,并为异质结的无缝和大面积接触提供了新的思路。