Accelerating photocatalytic hydrogen production by anchoring Pt single atoms on few-layer g-C<sub>3</sub>N<sub>4</sub> nanosheets with Pt

Accelerating photocatalytic hydrogen production by anchoring Pt single atoms on few-layer g-C₃N₄ nanosheets with Pt–N coordination

Published:2024 Issue:10 Volume:12 Page:3437-3449
ISSN:2050-7526
Container-title:Journal of Materials Chemistry C
language:en
Short-container-title:J. Mater. Chem. C

Author:

Zhang Qi¹²,Yue Miao¹²,Chen Peng¹²,Ren Qingmiao¹²,Kong Weihu¹,Jia Chenxia¹,Lu Qianyu¹²,Wu Jizhou¹²³^ORCID,Li Yuqing¹²³,Liu Wenliang¹²³,Li Peng¹^ORCID,Fu Yongming¹²^ORCID,Ma Jie¹²³

Affiliation:

1. School of Physics and Electronic Engineering & Institute of Laser Spectroscopy, State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

2. Xinzhou Institute of Innovation Ecosystem, Shanxi University, Xinzhou 034000, China

3. Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

Abstract

g-C3N4 nanosheets are modified with Pt single atoms at 1.5 at% through a low-temperature incipient wetness impregnation method followed by high-temperature pyrolysis, increasing the photocatalytic H2 production rate by two orders of magnitude.

Funder

National Key Research and Development Program of China

Applied Basic Research Project of Shanxi Province, China

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2024/TC/D3TC04673G

Reference60 articles.

1. Challenges for photocatalytic overall water splitting

2. Recent advances in semiconductors for photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical water splitting

3. Z‐Scheme Photocatalytic Systems for Solar Water Splitting