Photocatalysis is a sunrise technology with great potential for hydrogen production 1,2,carbon dioxide reduction 3,and so on.However,a single-component photocatalyst often exhibits severely limited activity due to rap...Photocatalysis is a sunrise technology with great potential for hydrogen production 1,2,carbon dioxide reduction 3,and so on.However,a single-component photocatalyst often exhibits severely limited activity due to rapid photogenerated carrier recombination and weak redox abilities.展开更多
The convertion of solar energy into hydrogen energy with high energy density by photocatalysis is a green and eco-friendly avenue to solve the energy crisis and environmental pollution issues 1,2.Unfortunately,most ph...The convertion of solar energy into hydrogen energy with high energy density by photocatalysis is a green and eco-friendly avenue to solve the energy crisis and environmental pollution issues 1,2.Unfortunately,most photocatalysts usually suffer from the rapid quenching of photogenerated carriers and depressed interfacial H_(2)-generation dynamics 3,4.To overcome the above shortcomings,cocatalysts are widely employed to promote the separation of photocarriers and to create active sites for surface catalytic reactions 5.For a superb cocatalyst,its active sites usually play a key role in the overall performance of photocatalytic H_(2) evolution because the active sites can not only provide a large number of adsorption centers to enrich H+,but also present an outstanding catalytic efficiency to convert H+into H_(2) by reducing its reaction overpotential 6.Thus,the active-site number and efficiency of cocatalysts should be maximized as much as possible to greatly boost the cocatalytic H2-evolution activity by photocatalysis.展开更多
文摘Photocatalysis is a sunrise technology with great potential for hydrogen production 1,2,carbon dioxide reduction 3,and so on.However,a single-component photocatalyst often exhibits severely limited activity due to rapid photogenerated carrier recombination and weak redox abilities.
基金funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research(DSR)at King Abdulaziz University,Jeddah,under grant No.RG-72-130-42.
文摘The convertion of solar energy into hydrogen energy with high energy density by photocatalysis is a green and eco-friendly avenue to solve the energy crisis and environmental pollution issues 1,2.Unfortunately,most photocatalysts usually suffer from the rapid quenching of photogenerated carriers and depressed interfacial H_(2)-generation dynamics 3,4.To overcome the above shortcomings,cocatalysts are widely employed to promote the separation of photocarriers and to create active sites for surface catalytic reactions 5.For a superb cocatalyst,its active sites usually play a key role in the overall performance of photocatalytic H_(2) evolution because the active sites can not only provide a large number of adsorption centers to enrich H+,but also present an outstanding catalytic efficiency to convert H+into H_(2) by reducing its reaction overpotential 6.Thus,the active-site number and efficiency of cocatalysts should be maximized as much as possible to greatly boost the cocatalytic H2-evolution activity by photocatalysis.
