Atomically Dispersed Janus Nickel Sites on Red Phosphorus for Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting

Overview

Journal Angew Chem Int Ed Engl

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2022 May 6

PMID 35522600

Authors

Menglong Wang

Shuai Xu

Zhaohui Zhou

Chung-Li Dong

Xu Guo

Jeng-Lung Chen

Yu-Cheng Huang

Shaohua Shen

Yubin Chen

Liejin Guo

Clemens Burda

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Abstract

Single-atom nickel catalysts hold great promise for photocatalytic water splitting due to their plentiful active sites and cost-effectiveness. Herein, we adopt a reactive-group guided strategy to prepare atomically dispersed nickel catalysts on red phosphorus. The hydrothermal treatment of red phosphorus leads to the formation of P-H and P-OH groups, which behave as the reactive functionalities to generate the dual structure of single-atom P-Ni and P-O-Ni catalytic sites. The produced single-atom sites provide two different functions: P-Ni for water reduction and P-O-Ni for water oxidation. Benefitting from this specific Janus structure, Ni-red phosphorus shows an elevated hydrogen evolution rate compared to Ni nanoparticle-modified red phosphorus under visible-light irradiation. The hydrogen evolution rate was additionally enhanced with increased reaction temperature, reaching 91.51 μmol h at 70 °C, corresponding to an apparent quantum efficiency of 8.9 % at 420 nm excitation wavelength.

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