Metal-free highly efficient photocatalysts for overall water splitting: C3N5 multilayers

Nanoscale ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 306-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siyun Qi ◽  
Yingcai Fan ◽  
Junru Wang ◽  
Xiaohan Song ◽  
Weifeng Li ◽  
...  

We demonstrated from first-principles the C3N5 multilayers as high-efficient photocatalysts for overall water splitting. The redox ability of the photogenerated carriers is high enough to drive HER and OER without using sacrificial reagents.

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (34) ◽  
pp. 11980-11987
Author(s):  
Kai Zheng ◽  
Heping Cui ◽  
Houcai Luo ◽  
Jiabing Yu ◽  
Shaogang Wang ◽  
...  

We thoroughly investigated the photocatalytic performance of novel 2D penta-SiAs2 as an efficient photocatalyst based on first-principles calculations.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (32) ◽  
pp. 17064-17072 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheye Zhang ◽  
Zhengran Yi ◽  
Juan Wang ◽  
Xin Tian ◽  
Pei Xu ◽  
...  

A carbon-based, bifunctional metal-free water splitting electrocatalyst is prepared using a nitrogen-enriched polydopamine analogue to produce defect-rich porous carbon, which exhibits superb catalytic activities for both the HER and the OER.


Author(s):  
Lunlun Gong ◽  
Peili Zhang ◽  
Guoquan Liu ◽  
Yu Shan ◽  
Mei Wang

Modification of the surface of semiconductor-based photoelectrodes with molecular redox catalysts gives a way to realize atom-efficient catalysis for photoelectrochemical (PEC) H2 and O2 evolution. However, the diversity of immobilized...


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xixi Ji ◽  
Yanhong Lin ◽  
Jie Zeng ◽  
Zhonghua Ren ◽  
Zijia Lin ◽  
...  

AbstractDevelopment of excellent and cheap electrocatalysts for water electrolysis is of great significance for application of hydrogen energy. Here, we show a highly efficient and stable oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalyst with multilayer-stacked hybrid structure, in which vertical graphene nanosheets (VGSs), MoS2 nanosheets, and layered FeCoNi hydroxides (FeCoNi(OH)x) are successively grown on carbon fibers (CF/VGSs/MoS2/FeCoNi(OH)x). The catalyst exhibits excellent OER performance with a low overpotential of 225 and 241 mV to attain 500 and 1000 mA cm−2 and small Tafel slope of 29.2 mV dec−1. Theoretical calculation indicates that compositing of FeCoNi(OH)x with MoS2 could generate favorable electronic structure and decrease the OER overpotential, promoting the electrocatalytic activity. An alkaline water electrolyzer is established using CF/VGSs/MoS2/FeCoNi(OH)x anode for overall water splitting, which generates a current density of 100 mA cm−2 at 1.59 V with excellent stability over 100 h. Our highly efficient catalysts have great prospect for water electrolysis.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shankar S. Narwade ◽  
Shivsharan M. Mali ◽  
Bhaskar R. Sathe

A study on the in situ decoration of ethylenediamine (EDA) on acid functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (O-MWCNTs) for overall water splitting reactions at all pH as an efficient and inexpensive metal-free multifunctional electrocatalyst.


Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hu Liu ◽  
Mengqi Shen ◽  
Peng Zhou ◽  
Zhi Guo ◽  
Xinyang Liu ◽  
...  

Developing an efficient single component photocatalyst for overall water splitting under visible-light irradiation is extremely challenging. Herein, we report a metal-free graphitic carbon nitride (g-CxN4)-based nanosheet photocatalyst (x = 3.2,...


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