Ambient-Stable Black Phosphorus-Based 2D/2D S-Scheme Heterojunction for Efficient Photocatalytic CO₂ Reduction to...

Black phosphorus (BP), an emerging remarkable photocatalytic semiconductor, is arousing strong interests in this field of solar-driven CO₂ reduction, but its stability and activity are still facing huge challenges. Here, an ambient-stable and effective 2D/2D heterostructure of BP/bismuth tungstate (Bi₂WO₆) with oxygen vacancy is innovatively designed for syngas production via photocatalytic CO₂ reduction. This work, not only resolves the stability problem of BP nanosheets by anchoring ultrasmall platinum (Pt) nanoparticles (∼2 nm) but also greatly improves the charge transfer efficiency by constructing S-scheme 2D/2D heterostructure with coupled oxygen defects. As a result, the generation rates of carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H₂) remarkably reach 20.5 and 16.8 μmol g^-1 h^-1, respectively, which are much higher than that of reported BP-based materials, and the accomplished CO/H₂ ratios (1:1-2:1) are exactly the most desirable syngas for industrial applications. Thus, this work constructs an efficient and ambient-stable BP-based photocatalyst for syngas production by CO₂ reduction at mild conditions.