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Band Engineering of Semiconducting Microporous Graphitic Carbons by Phosphorous Doping: Enhancing of Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting

Carbon-based solar photocatalysts for overall water splitting could provide H2 as an energy vector in a clean and sustainable way. Band engineering to align energy levels can be achieved, among other ways, by doping. Herein, it is shown that phosphorous doping of microporous graphitic carbons derive...

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Published in:ACS applied materials & interfaces 2021-10, Vol.13 (41), p.48753-48763
Main Authors: García-Mulero, Ana, Rendón-Patiño, Alejandra, Asiri, Abdullah M, Primo, Ana, Garcia, Hermenegildo
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Language:English
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Summary:Carbon-based solar photocatalysts for overall water splitting could provide H2 as an energy vector in a clean and sustainable way. Band engineering to align energy levels can be achieved, among other ways, by doping. Herein, it is shown that phosphorous doping of microporous graphitic carbons derived from pyrolysis of α-, β-, and γ-cyclodextrin increases the valence band edge energy of the material, and the energy value of the conduction band decreases with the P content. In this way, P doping increases the activity of these metal-free materials in photocatalytic overall water splitting under simulated sunlight and visible-light illumination. The optimal P-doped photocatalyst in the absence of any metal as a cocatalyst affords, after 4 h of irradiation with simulated sunlight, a H2 production of 2.5 mmol of H2 × gcatalyst –1 in the presence of methanol as the sacrificial agent or 225 μmol of H2 × gcatalyst –1 from pure H2O.
ISSN:1944-8244
1944-8252
DOI:10.1021/acsami.1c14357