Solar-driven water splitting is considered as a promising method to mitigate the energy crisis and various environmental issues.Bismuth vanadate(BiVO_(4))is photoanode material with tremendous potential for photoelect...Solar-driven water splitting is considered as a promising method to mitigate the energy crisis and various environmental issues.Bismuth vanadate(BiVO_(4))is photoanode material with tremendous potential for photoelectrochemical(PEC)water splitting.However,its PEC performance is severely hindered owing to poor surface charge transfer,surface recombination at the photoanode/electrolyte junction,and sluggish oxygen evolution reaction(OER)kinetics.In this regard,a novel solution was developed in this study to address these issues by decorating the surface of BiVO_(4)with cobalt sulfide,whose attractive features such as low cost,high conductivity,and rapid charge-transfer ability assisted in improving the PEC activity of the BiVO_(4)photoanode.The fabricated photoanode exhibited a significantly enhanced photocurrent density of 3.2 m A cm^(-2)under illumination at 1.23 V vs.a reversible hydrogen electrode,which is more than 2.5 times greater than that of pristine BiVO_(4).Moreover,the Co S/BiVO_(4)photoanode also exhibited considerable improvements in the charge injection yield(75.8%vs.36.7%for the bare BiVO_(4)film)and charge separation efficiency(79.8%vs.66.8%for the pristine BiVO_(4)film).These dramatic enhancements were primarily ascribed to rapid charge-transport kinetics and efficient reduction of the anodic overpotential for oxygen evolution enabled by the surface modification of BiVO_(4)by Co S.This study provides valuable suggestions for designing efficient photocatalysts via surface modification to improve the PEC performance.展开更多
Covalent organic frameworks(COFs)have lately emerged as a blooming class of potential materials for photocatalytic water splitting because of their high crystallinity,huge surface areas,and structural versatility.Howe...Covalent organic frameworks(COFs)have lately emerged as a blooming class of potential materials for photocatalytic water splitting because of their high crystallinity,huge surface areas,and structural versatility.However,the photocatalytic performance for most pure COFs face some limitations factors,such as the significant recombination of photogenerated carriers and slow charge transfer.Herein,a novel thioether-functionalized pyrene-based COF(S_(4)-COF)was effectively produced and chosen as a support for the immobilization of ultrafine gold nanoparticles(Au NPs).S_(4)-COF photocatalyst with Au as cocatalyst demonstrates remarkable photocatalytic activity with a H_(2) generation rate of 1377μmol g^(−1) h^(−1) under visible light(>420 nm),which is ca.4.5-fold increase comparing to that of pure S_(4)-COF(302μmol g^(−1) h^(−1)).Au NPs anchored on S_(4)-COF possess an ultrafine size distribution ranging from 1.75 to 6.25 nm with an average size centered at 3.8 nm,which benefits from the coordination interaction between thioether groups and Au.Meanwhile,the produced Au@S_(4)-COF can generate a stable photocatalytic H_(2) generation during the four recycles and preserve its crystallinity structure after the stability testing.The Au NPs anchored on the S_(4)-COF photocatalyst can greatly accelerate the separation of photogenerated carriers and increase charge transfer because of the combined function of Au NPs and thioether groups.Such a method can not only prevent the aggregation of Au NPs onto thioether-containing COFs to achieve long-term photostability but also allow uniform dispersion for an ordered structure of photocatalysts.This work provides a rational strategy for designing and preparing COF-based photocatalysts for solar-driven H_(2) production.展开更多
The hydrogen abstraction reaction from H_(2)S by OH is of key importance in understanding of the causes of acid rain,air pollution,and climate change.In this work,the reaction OH+H_(2)S→H_(2)O+SH is investigated on a...The hydrogen abstraction reaction from H_(2)S by OH is of key importance in understanding of the causes of acid rain,air pollution,and climate change.In this work,the reaction OH+H_(2)S→H_(2)O+SH is investigated on a recently developed ab initio-based globally accurate potential energy surface by the time-dependent wave packet approach under a reduceddimensional model.This reaction behaves like a barrier-less reaction at low collision energies and like an activated reaction with a well-defined barrier at high collision energies.Exciting either the symmetric or antisymmetric stretching mode of the molecule H_(2)S enhances the reactivity more than exciting the bending mode,which is rationalized by the coupling strength of each normal mode with the reaction coordinate.In addition,the modespecific rate constant shows a remarkable non-Arrhenius temperature dependence.展开更多
Although the many-body expansion(MBE)approach is widely applied to estimate the energy of large systems containing weak interactions,it is inapplicable to calculating the energies of covalent or metal clusters.In this...Although the many-body expansion(MBE)approach is widely applied to estimate the energy of large systems containing weak interactions,it is inapplicable to calculating the energies of covalent or metal clusters.In this work,we propose an interaction manybody expansion(IMBE)to calculate the energy of atomic clusters containing covalent bonds.In this approach,the energy of a system is expressed as the sum of the energy of atoms and the interaction energy between the atom and its surrounding atoms.The IMBE method is first applied to calculate the energies of nitrogen clusters,in which the interatomic interactions are truncated to four-body terms.The results show that the IMBE approach could significantly reduce the energy error for nitrogen clusters compared with the traditional MBE method.The weak size and structure dependence of the IMBE error with respect to DFT calculations indicates the IMBE method has good potential application in estimating energy of large covalent systems.展开更多
文摘Solar-driven water splitting is considered as a promising method to mitigate the energy crisis and various environmental issues.Bismuth vanadate(BiVO_(4))is photoanode material with tremendous potential for photoelectrochemical(PEC)water splitting.However,its PEC performance is severely hindered owing to poor surface charge transfer,surface recombination at the photoanode/electrolyte junction,and sluggish oxygen evolution reaction(OER)kinetics.In this regard,a novel solution was developed in this study to address these issues by decorating the surface of BiVO_(4)with cobalt sulfide,whose attractive features such as low cost,high conductivity,and rapid charge-transfer ability assisted in improving the PEC activity of the BiVO_(4)photoanode.The fabricated photoanode exhibited a significantly enhanced photocurrent density of 3.2 m A cm^(-2)under illumination at 1.23 V vs.a reversible hydrogen electrode,which is more than 2.5 times greater than that of pristine BiVO_(4).Moreover,the Co S/BiVO_(4)photoanode also exhibited considerable improvements in the charge injection yield(75.8%vs.36.7%for the bare BiVO_(4)film)and charge separation efficiency(79.8%vs.66.8%for the pristine BiVO_(4)film).These dramatic enhancements were primarily ascribed to rapid charge-transport kinetics and efficient reduction of the anodic overpotential for oxygen evolution enabled by the surface modification of BiVO_(4)by Co S.This study provides valuable suggestions for designing efficient photocatalysts via surface modification to improve the PEC performance.
文摘Covalent organic frameworks(COFs)have lately emerged as a blooming class of potential materials for photocatalytic water splitting because of their high crystallinity,huge surface areas,and structural versatility.However,the photocatalytic performance for most pure COFs face some limitations factors,such as the significant recombination of photogenerated carriers and slow charge transfer.Herein,a novel thioether-functionalized pyrene-based COF(S_(4)-COF)was effectively produced and chosen as a support for the immobilization of ultrafine gold nanoparticles(Au NPs).S_(4)-COF photocatalyst with Au as cocatalyst demonstrates remarkable photocatalytic activity with a H_(2) generation rate of 1377μmol g^(−1) h^(−1) under visible light(>420 nm),which is ca.4.5-fold increase comparing to that of pure S_(4)-COF(302μmol g^(−1) h^(−1)).Au NPs anchored on S_(4)-COF possess an ultrafine size distribution ranging from 1.75 to 6.25 nm with an average size centered at 3.8 nm,which benefits from the coordination interaction between thioether groups and Au.Meanwhile,the produced Au@S_(4)-COF can generate a stable photocatalytic H_(2) generation during the four recycles and preserve its crystallinity structure after the stability testing.The Au NPs anchored on the S_(4)-COF photocatalyst can greatly accelerate the separation of photogenerated carriers and increase charge transfer because of the combined function of Au NPs and thioether groups.Such a method can not only prevent the aggregation of Au NPs onto thioether-containing COFs to achieve long-term photostability but also allow uniform dispersion for an ordered structure of photocatalysts.This work provides a rational strategy for designing and preparing COF-based photocatalysts for solar-driven H_(2) production.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21973109 to Hongwei Song,No.21773297,No.21973108,and No.21921004 to Minghui Yang)the Ministry of Education,Singapore,under its Academic Research Fund Tier 1(RG83/20)to Yunpeng Lu。
文摘The hydrogen abstraction reaction from H_(2)S by OH is of key importance in understanding of the causes of acid rain,air pollution,and climate change.In this work,the reaction OH+H_(2)S→H_(2)O+SH is investigated on a recently developed ab initio-based globally accurate potential energy surface by the time-dependent wave packet approach under a reduceddimensional model.This reaction behaves like a barrier-less reaction at low collision energies and like an activated reaction with a well-defined barrier at high collision energies.Exciting either the symmetric or antisymmetric stretching mode of the molecule H_(2)S enhances the reactivity more than exciting the bending mode,which is rationalized by the coupling strength of each normal mode with the reaction coordinate.In addition,the modespecific rate constant shows a remarkable non-Arrhenius temperature dependence.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21773297,No.21973108,and No.21921004)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21805258)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21973107)。
文摘Although the many-body expansion(MBE)approach is widely applied to estimate the energy of large systems containing weak interactions,it is inapplicable to calculating the energies of covalent or metal clusters.In this work,we propose an interaction manybody expansion(IMBE)to calculate the energy of atomic clusters containing covalent bonds.In this approach,the energy of a system is expressed as the sum of the energy of atoms and the interaction energy between the atom and its surrounding atoms.The IMBE method is first applied to calculate the energies of nitrogen clusters,in which the interatomic interactions are truncated to four-body terms.The results show that the IMBE approach could significantly reduce the energy error for nitrogen clusters compared with the traditional MBE method.The weak size and structure dependence of the IMBE error with respect to DFT calculations indicates the IMBE method has good potential application in estimating energy of large covalent systems.
