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Yanjun Xue, Yinghong Ji, Xinyu Wang, Huanli Wang, Xiaobo Chen, Xiaoli Zhang, Jian Tian. Heterostructuring noble-metal-free 1T' phase MoS2 with g-C3N4 hollow nanocages to improve the photocatalytic H2 evolution activity. Green Energy&Environment, 2023, 8(3): 864-873. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2021.11.002
Citation: Yanjun Xue, Yinghong Ji, Xinyu Wang, Huanli Wang, Xiaobo Chen, Xiaoli Zhang, Jian Tian. Heterostructuring noble-metal-free 1T' phase MoS2 with g-C3N4 hollow nanocages to improve the photocatalytic H2 evolution activity. Green Energy&Environment, 2023, 8(3): 864-873. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2021.11.002
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Heterostructuring noble-metal-free 1T' phase MoS2 with g-C3N4 hollow nanocages to improve the photocatalytic H2 evolution activity

doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2021.11.002

  • a. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China;

  • b. School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao 266033, China;

  • c. Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA;

  • d. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China

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The authors are thankful for funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51872173) Taishan Scholar Foundation of Shandong Province (No. tsqn201812068), Youth Innovation Technology Project of Higher School in Shandong Province (No. 2019KJA013), Science and Technology Special Project of Qingdao City (No. 20-3-4-3-nsh), the Opening Fund of State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing (No. SKLOP202002006). X. C. acknowledges the support from the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of Missouri - Kansas City.

  • Received date 20 September 2021, Accepted date 25 November 2021, RevRecd date 12 November 2021, Available online 17 May 2023, Publish date 31 July 2023,
    Abstract
  • In this work, we report the preparation of 1T'-MoS2/g-C3N4 nanocage (NC) heterostructure by loading 2D semi-metal noble-metal-free 1T'-MoS2 on the g-C3N4 nanocages (NCs). DFT calculation and experimental data have shown that the 1T'-MoS2/g-C3N4 NC heterostructure has a stronger light absorption capacity and larger specific surface area than pure g-C3N4 NCs and g-C3N4 nanosheets (NSs), and the presence of the co-catalysts 1T'-MoS2 can effectively inhibit the photoinduced carrier recombination. As a result, the 1T'-MoS2/g-C3N4 NC heterostructure with an optimum 1T'-MoS2 loading of 9 wt% displays a hydrogen evolution rate of 1949 μmol h-1 g-1, 162.4, 1.2, 1.5, 1.6 and 1.2 times than pure g-C3N4 NCs (12 μmol h-1 g-1), Pt/g-C3N4 NCs (1615 μmol h-1 g-1) and Pt/g-C3N4 nanosheets (NSs, 1297 μmol h-1 g-1), 1T'-MoS2/g-C3N4 nanosheets (1216 μmol h-1 g-1) and 2H-MoS2/g-C3N4 nanocages (1573 μmol h-1 g-1), respectively, and exhibits excellent cycle stability. Therefore, 1T'-MoS2/g-C3N4 NC heterostructure is a suitable photocatalyst for green H2 production.

     

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