Bottom-up fabrication of graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets modified with porphyrin via covalent bonding for photocatalytic H2 evolution

In order to broaden the absorption range of graphitic carbon nitride,one of the common methods is to couple the well-known photosensitizer porphyrin with graphitic carbon nitride through van der Waals weak in teractions.To date,to combine porphyrin with graphitic carbon nitridethrough covalent in teractions has not been settled.In this work,through rational molecular design,we successfully in corporated porphyrininto the matrixes of graphitic carbon nitride by covale nt bonding via on expot thermal copolymerization.The resulta nt material not only can wide nthe absorption range but also possess the enlarged specific surface area and construction intramolecular heterojunctions which can contributeto improve electron-holes separation efficiency.The resultant photocatalyst exhibited enhanced H2 production rate(7.6 mmol·g^-1·h^-1)and withthe apparent quantum efficiency(AQE)of 13.3%at 450 nm.At the same time,this method opens a way to fabricate graphitic carb on nitridenano sheets via bottom-up strategy.