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Enhanced Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic Overall Splitting of Pure Water in a Porous Microreactor
Chuansong Duanmu1, Tingwei Wang1, Xin-Yu Meng2
1National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Mineral Salt Deep Utilization, College of Chemical Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, 223003, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Photocatalytic overall splitting of pure water (H2O) without sacrificial reagent to hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2) holds a great potential for achieving carbon neutrality. Herein, by anchoring cobalt sulfide (Co9S8) as cocatalyst and cadmium sulfide (CdS) as light absorber to channel wall of a porous polymer microreactor (PP12), continuous violent H2 and O2 bubbling productions from photocatalytic overall splitting of pure H2O without sacrificial reagent is achieved, with H2 and O2 production rates as high as 4.41 and 2.20 mmol h-1 gcat. -1 respectively. These are significantly enhanced than those in the widely used stirred tank-type reactor in which no O2 is produced and H2 production rate is only 0.004 mmol h-1 gcat. -1. Besides improved charge separation and interaction of H2O with photocatalyst in PP12, bonding interaction of Co9S8 with PP12 creates abundant catalytic active sites for simultaneous productions of H2 and O2, thus leading to the significantly enhanced H2 and O2 bubbling productions in PP12. This offers a new strategy to enhance photocatalytic overall splitting of pure H2O without sacrificial reagent.
