Hierarchical Porous O‐Doped g‐C3N4 with Enhanced Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction Activity

Small - Tập 13 Số 15 - 2017
Junwei Fu1, Bicheng Zhu1, Chuanjia Jiang1, Bei Cheng1, Wei You1
1State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, P. R. China.

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Artificial photosynthesis of hydrocarbon fuels by utilizing solar energy and CO2 is considered as a potential route for solving ever‐increasing energy crisis and greenhouse effect. Herein, hierarchical porous O‐doped graphitic carbon nitride (g‐C3N4) nanotubes (OCN‐Tube) are prepared via successive thermal oxidation exfoliation and curling‐condensation of bulk g‐C3N4. The as‐prepared OCN‐Tube exhibits hierarchically porous structures, which consist of interconnected multiwalled nanotubes with uniform diameters of 20–30 nm. The hierarchical OCN‐Tube shows excellent photocatalytic CO2 reduction performance under visible light, with methanol evolution rate of 0.88 µmol g−1 h−1, which is five times higher than bulk g‐C3N4 (0.17 µmol g−1 h−1). The enhanced photocatalytic activity of OCN‐Tube is ascribed to the hierarchical nanotube structure and O‐doping effect. The hierarchical nanotube structure endows OCN‐Tube with higher specific surface area, greater light utilization efficiency, and improved molecular diffusion kinetics, due to the more exposed active edges and multiple light reflection/scattering channels. The O‐doping optimizes the band structure of g‐C3N4, resulting in narrower bandgap, greater CO2 affinity, and uptake capacity as well as higher separation efficiency of photogenerated charge carriers. This work provides a novel strategy to design hierarchical g‐C3N4 nanostructures, which can be used as promising photocatalyst for solar energy conversion.

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