摘要
Electron donors are widely exploited in visible-light photocatalytic hydrogen production.As a typical electron donor pair and often the first choice for hydrogen production,the sodium sulfide-sodium sulfite pair has been extensively used.However,the resultant thiosulfate ions consume the photogenerated electrons to form an undesirable pseudocyclic electron transfer pathway during the photocatalytic process,strongly limiting the solar energy conversion efficiency.Here,we report novel and bioinspired electron donor pairs offering a noncyclic electron transfer pathway that provides more electrons without the consumption of the photogenerated electrons.Compared to the state-of-the-art electron donor pair Na_(2)S-Na_(2)SO_(3),these novel Na_(2)S-NaH_(2)PO_(2)and Na_(2)S-NaNO_(2)electron donor pairs enable an unprecedented enhancement of up to 370%and 140%for average photocatalytic H_(2)production over commercial CdS nanoparticles,and they are versatile for a large series of photocatalysts for visible-light water splitting.The discovery of these novel electron donor pairs can lead to a revolution in photocatalysis and is of great significance for industrial visible-light-driven H_(2)production.
基金
This work is financially supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(grant nos.2016YFA0202602 and 2021YFE0115800)
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant nos.U20A20122 and 52103285)
the Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities-Plan 111 from the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education of China(grant no.B20002)
the“Algae Factory”European Horizon 2020 Program financed by FEDER and Wallonia Region of Belgium(grant no.1610187)
the“DepollutAir”of Interreg V France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen and the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province(grant nos.2018CFB242 and 2020CFB416)
the Youth Innovation Research Fund Project of the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing.T.H.acknowledges support from the Royal Academy of Engineering through a Research Fellowship(Graphlex).We also thank Prof.Pierre Van Cutsem,Department of Biology,University of Namur for his advice.