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Engineering Migration Pathway for Effective Separation of Photogenerated Carriers on Multicomponent Heterojunctions
Yuan Zhuang1, Liming Sun1, Suyuan Zeng2
1Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Green Synthetic Chemistry for, Functional Materials, Department of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, 221116, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Multicomponent NiTiO3 /A-TiO2 /R-TiO2 photocatalysts coated with nitrogen-doped carbon (N-C/NiTiO3 /A-TiO2 /R-TiO2 ) for efficient H2 production were fabricated by directly pyrolyzing NH2 -MIL-125(Ni/Ti) metal-organic framework microrods. Owing to the synergistic effect of the N-doped carbon coating layer and multicomponent heterojunctions, the H2 production rate of N-C/NiTiO3 /A-TiO2 /R-TiO2 was even higher than that of its Pt-containing counterpart (Pt/NiTiO3 /A-TiO2 /R-TiO2 ). N-C/NiTiO3 /A-TiO2 and N-C/NiTiO3 /R-TiO2 as control photocatalysts were also prepared by simply adjusting the calcination temperature of NH2 -MIL-125(Ni/Ti) in air atmosphere. The H2 production rate followed the order of N-C/NiTiO3 /A-TiO2 /R-TiO2 >N-C/NiTiO3 /A-TiO2 >N-C/NiTiO3 >R-TiO2 , which indicates that the multicomponent heterojunction plays a key role in photocatalytic H2 generation. The mechanism for the influence of the multicomponent heterojunction on photocatalytic activity was investigated in combination with molecular simulations, which showed that N-C/NiTiO3 /A-TiO2 /R-TiO2 has a so-called double type II heterojunction providing a perfect step-by-step migration pathway for effective separation of photogenerated electrons and holes. This work presents a simple and effective method for synthesizing efficient multicomponent photocatalysts.
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