• 文献标题:   Electronic structure manipulation of graphene dots for effective hydrogen evolution from photocatalytic water decomposition
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   NGUYEN BS, XIAO YK, SHIH CY, NGUYEN VC, CHOU WY, TENG HS
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  • 出版物名称:   NANOSCALE
  • ISSN:   2040-3364 EI 2040-3372
  • 通讯作者地址:   Natl Cheng Kung Univ
  • 被引频次:   4
  • DOI:   10.1039/c8nr02441c
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

This paper presents a heteroatom doping strategy to manipulate the structure of graphene-based photocatalysts for effective hydrogen production from aqueous solution. Oxygenation of graphene creates a bandgap to produce semiconducting graphene oxide, nitrogen doping extends the resonant -conjugation to prolong the charge lifetime, and sulfur doping breaks the electron neutrality to facilitate charge transfer. Accordingly, ammonia-treated sulfur-nitrogen-co-doped graphene oxide dots (A-SNGODs) are synthesized by annealing graphene oxide sheets in sulfur-ammonia, oxidizing the sheets into dots, and then hydrothermally treating the dots in ammonia. The A-SNGODs exhibit a high nitrogen content in terms of quaternary and amide groups that are formed through sulfur-mediated reactions. The peripheral amide facilitates orbital conjugations to enhance the photocatalytic activity, whereas the quaternary nitrogen patches vacancy defects to improve stability. The simultaneous presence of electron-withdrawing S and electron-donating N atoms in the A-SNGODs facilitates charge separation and results in reactive electrons. When suspended in an aqueous triethanolamine solution, Pt-deposited A-SNGODs demonstrate a hydrogen-evolution quantum yield of 29% under monochromatic 420 nm irradiation. The A-SNGODs exhibit little activity decay under 6-day visible-light irradiation. This study demonstrates the excellence of the heteroatom-doping strategy in producing stable and active graphene-based materials for photoenergy conversion.