Given the clean and inexhaustible solar energy from solar light,photocatalytic ammonia synthesis is extremely appealing.However,high electron-hole recombination rates and insufficient active sites severely limited N2 ...Given the clean and inexhaustible solar energy from solar light,photocatalytic ammonia synthesis is extremely appealing.However,high electron-hole recombination rates and insufficient active sites severely limited N2 photoreaction reduction.Herein,we designed and fabricated FeCu alloy nanoparticles anchored on carbon nitride nanosheets with excellent photocatalyt ic ammonia synthesis performance.As a coupler between Fe and carbon nitride,Cu promotes the separation of photogenerated charge carriers in carbon nitride under solar light irradiation,and renters the semiconductor a forceful electron donor for the Fe active sites.The accumulated electrons at Fe sites furtherly facilitated the adsorption and activation of the molecular nitrogen.Besides,the uniform dispersed FeCu alloy nanoparticles were on carbon nitride nanosheets enhanced the stability of photocataly tic nitrogen reduction reaction,making the artificial photocataly tic ammonia synthesis more sustainable for application.This work highlights that a direct electron transfer channel can be used to regulate the photochemical nitrogen fixation network.展开更多
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.52002361 and 22109120)the Science and Technology Research Project of Jiangxi Provincial Education Department(Nos.GJJ2201045 and GJJ2201007)+2 种基金Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(No.LQ21B030002)the Key Project for Science and Technology Cooperation of Jiangxi Province(No.20212BDH80005)the Project of the Science and Technology of Jingdezhen City(No.20202GYZD013-16)。
文摘Given the clean and inexhaustible solar energy from solar light,photocatalytic ammonia synthesis is extremely appealing.However,high electron-hole recombination rates and insufficient active sites severely limited N2 photoreaction reduction.Herein,we designed and fabricated FeCu alloy nanoparticles anchored on carbon nitride nanosheets with excellent photocatalyt ic ammonia synthesis performance.As a coupler between Fe and carbon nitride,Cu promotes the separation of photogenerated charge carriers in carbon nitride under solar light irradiation,and renters the semiconductor a forceful electron donor for the Fe active sites.The accumulated electrons at Fe sites furtherly facilitated the adsorption and activation of the molecular nitrogen.Besides,the uniform dispersed FeCu alloy nanoparticles were on carbon nitride nanosheets enhanced the stability of photocataly tic nitrogen reduction reaction,making the artificial photocataly tic ammonia synthesis more sustainable for application.This work highlights that a direct electron transfer channel can be used to regulate the photochemical nitrogen fixation network.
