Efficient and stable visible-light-driven Z-scheme overall water splitting using an oxysulfide H<subscript>2</subscript> evolution photocatalyst.
In: Nature Communications, 2024-02-07, S. 1-12
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So-called Z-scheme systems permit overall water splitting using narrow-bandgap photocatalysts. To boost the performance of such systems, it is necessary to enhance the intrinsic activities of the hydrogen evolution photocatalyst and oxygen evolution photocatalyst, promote electron transfer from the oxygen evolution photocatalyst to the hydrogen evolution photocatalyst, and suppress back reactions. The present work develop a high-performance oxysulfide photocatalyst, Sm 2 Ti 2 O 5 S 2 , as an hydrogen evolution photocatalyst for use in a Z-scheme overall water splitting system in combination with BiVO 4 as the oxygen evolution photocatalyst and reduced graphene oxide as the solid-state electron mediator. After surface modifications of the photocatalysts to promote charge separation and redox reactions, this system is able to split water into hydrogen and oxygen for more than 100 hours with a solar-to-hydrogen energy conversion efficiency of 0.22%. In contrast to many existing photocatalytic systems, the water splitting activity of the present system is only minimally reduced by increasing the background pressure to 90 kPa. These results suggest characteristics suitable for applications under practical operating conditions.Photocatalytic water splitting systems using Sm 2 Ti 2 O 5 S 2 , a visible light-active oxysulfide, exhibited low efficiencies due to low intrinsic photoactivity and rapid back reaction. Here, the efficiency was greatly improved by refining the preparation of photocatalysts and electron mediators [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Efficient and stable visible-light-driven Z-scheme overall water splitting using an oxysulfide H<subscript>2</subscript> evolution photocatalyst.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Lin, Lihua ; Ma, Yiwen ; Vequizo, Junie Jhon M. ; Nakabayashi, Mamiko ; Gu, Chen ; Tao, Xiaoping ; Yoshida, Hiroaki ; Pihosh, Yuriy ; Nishina, Yuta ; Yamakata, Akira ; Shibata, Naoya ; Hisatomi, Takashi ; Takata, Tsuyoshi ; Domen, Kazunari |
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Zeitschrift: | Nature Communications, 2024-02-07, S. 1-12 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2024 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 2041-1723 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-024-45596-2 |
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