[001]-Oriented Hittorf's Phosphorus Nanorods/Polymeric Carbon Nitride Heterostructure for Boosting Wide-Spectrum-Responsive Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution from Pure Water

作者：Zhu, Yukun; Lv, Chunxiao; Yin, Zhuocheng; Ren, Jun; Yang, Xianfeng; Dong, Chung-Li; Liu, Hongwei; Cai, Rongsheng; Huang, Yu-Cheng; Theis, Wolfgang; Shen, Shaohua^*; Yang, Dongjiang^*

来源：Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2020, 59(2): 868-873.

DOI：10.1002/anie.201911503

• heterostructures
• nanorods
• oriented Hittorf's phosphorus
• polymeric carbon nitride
• water splitting

Red phosphorus is a promising photocatalyst with wide visible-light absorption up to 700 nm, but the fast charge recombination limits its photocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity. Now, [001]-oriented Hittorf's phosphorus (HP) nanorods were successfully grown on polymeric carbon nitride (PCN) by a chemical vapor deposition strategy. Compared with the bare PCN and HP, the optimized PCN@HP hybrid exhibited a significantly enhanced photocatalytic activity, with HER rates reaching 33.2 and 17.5 mu mol h(-1) from pure water under simulated solar light and visible light irradiation, respectively. It was theoretically and experimentally indicated that the strong electronic coupling between PCN and [001]-oriented HP nanorods gave rise to the enhanced visible light absorption and the greatly accelerated photoinduced electron-hole separation and transfer, which benefited the photocatalytic HER performance.

• 单位
  青岛大学; 西安交通大学