Affiliation:
1. Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-based Functional Materials and Devices, Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China.
2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel.
Abstract
An enduring catalyst built from carbon
Splitting water into its constituent elements, hydrogen and oxygen, generally requires the assistance of metal catalysts. Liu
et al.
now show that a metal-free hybrid material composed of carbon and nitrogen can promote this reaction all on its own, with the help of some visible light. The photocatalyst combines one material (C
3
N
4
) known to split water into hydrogen and peroxide with a second material (CDot) that breaks the peroxide down before it can damage the first. The robust stability of this hybrid bodes well for practical implementation of optimized analogs in solar energy storage schemes.
Science
, this issue p.
970
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology
National Basic Research Program of China
Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education
Suzhou Planning Project of Science and Technology
Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Cited by
4226 articles.
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