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  • Title: Band Engineering and Morphology Control of Oxygen-Incorporated Graphitic Carbon Nitride Porous Nanosheets for Highly Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution.
    Author: Wu Y, Xiong P, Wu J, Huang Z, Sun J, Liu Q, Cheng X, Yang J, Zhu J, Zhou Y.
    Journal: Nanomicro Lett; 2021 Jan 04; 13(1):48. PubMed ID: 34138228.
    Abstract:
    Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4)-based photocatalysts have shown great potential in the splitting of water. However, the intrinsic drawbacks of g-C3N4, such as low surface area, poor diffusion, and charge separation efficiency, remain as the bottleneck to achieve highly efficient hydrogen evolution. Here, a hollow oxygen-incorporated g-C3N4 nanosheet (OCN) with an improved surface area of 148.5 m2 g-1 is fabricated by the multiple thermal treatments under the N2/O2 atmosphere, wherein the C-O bonds are formed through two ways of physical adsorption and doping. The physical characterization and theoretical calculation indicate that the O-adsorption can promote the generation of defects, leading to the formation of hollow morphology, while the O-doping results in reduced band gap of g-C3N4. The optimized OCN shows an excellent photocatalytic hydrogen evolution activity of 3519.6 μmol g-1 h-1 for ~ 20 h, which is over four times higher than that of g-C3N4 (850.1 μmol g-1 h-1) and outperforms most of the reported g-C3N4 catalysts.
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