The development of low cost, metal free semiconductor photocatalysts for CO2 reduction to fuels and valuable chemical feedstocks is a practically imperative for reducing anthropogenic CO2 emissions. In this work, blac...The development of low cost, metal free semiconductor photocatalysts for CO2 reduction to fuels and valuable chemical feedstocks is a practically imperative for reducing anthropogenic CO2 emissions. In this work, black phosphorus quantum dots（BPQDs） were successfully dispersed on a graphitic carbon nitride（g-C3N4） support via a simple electrostatic attraction approach, and the activities of BP@g-C3N4 composites were evaluated for photocatalytic CO2 reduction. The BP@g-C3N4 composites displayed improved carrier separation efficiency and higher activities for photocatalytic CO2 reduction to CO（6.54 μmol g^-1h^-1 at the optimum BPQDs loading of 1 wt%） compared with pure g-C3N4（2.65 μmol g^-1h^-1）. This work thus identifies a novel approach towards metal free photocatalysts for CO2 photoreduction.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51502146, U1404506, 21671113, 51772305, 51572270, and U1662118)the International Partnership Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (GJHZ1819)+1 种基金the Royal Society-Newton Advanced Fellowship (NA170422)supported by Open Fund (PEBM201702) of Key Laboratory for Photonic and Electric Bandgap Materials, Ministry of Education (Harbin Normal University)
文摘The development of low cost, metal free semiconductor photocatalysts for CO2 reduction to fuels and valuable chemical feedstocks is a practically imperative for reducing anthropogenic CO2 emissions. In this work, black phosphorus quantum dots（BPQDs） were successfully dispersed on a graphitic carbon nitride（g-C3N4） support via a simple electrostatic attraction approach, and the activities of BP@g-C3N4 composites were evaluated for photocatalytic CO2 reduction. The BP@g-C3N4 composites displayed improved carrier separation efficiency and higher activities for photocatalytic CO2 reduction to CO（6.54 μmol g^-1h^-1 at the optimum BPQDs loading of 1 wt%） compared with pure g-C3N4（2.65 μmol g^-1h^-1）. This work thus identifies a novel approach towards metal free photocatalysts for CO2 photoreduction.
