Citation: Bo Lin, Bowen Ma, Jiangang Chen, Yao Zhou, Jiadong Zhou, Xiaoqing Yan, Chao Xue, Xiao Luo, Qing Liu, Jinyong Wang, Renji Bian, Guidong Yang, Fucai Liu. Sea-urchin-like ReS₂ nanosheets with charge edge-collection effect as a novel cocatalyst for high-efficiency photocatalytic H₂ evolution[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2022, 33(2): 943-947. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2021.07.015 shu

Sea-urchin-like ReS₂ nanosheets with charge edge-collection effect as a novel cocatalyst for high-efficiency photocatalytic H₂ evolution

Bo Lin ^{a, 1} ,
Bowen Ma ^{a, 1} ,
Jiangang Chen ^a ,
Yao Zhou ^{b, *,} ,
Jiadong Zhou ^c ,
Xiaoqing Yan ^d ,
Chao Xue ^e ,
Xiao Luo ^a ,
Qing Liu ^a ,
Jinyong Wang ^a ,
Renji Bian ^a ,
Guidong Yang ^{d, *,} ,
Fucai Liu ^{a, *,}

a.
School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
b.
School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore
c.
Key Lab of Advanced Optoelectronic Quantum Architecture and Measurement (Ministry of Education), Beijing Key Lab of Nanophotonics & Ultrafine Optoelectronic Systems, and School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
d.
XJTU-Oxford International Joint Laboratory for Catalysis, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
e.
State Centre for International Cooperation on Designer Low-carbon and Environmental Materials (CDLCEM), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China

zhouyao@ntu.edu.sg

guidongyang@mail.xjtu.edu.cn

fucailiu@uestc.edu.cn

Received Date: 23 April 2021
Revised Date: 2 June 2021
Accepted Date: 6 July 2021
Available Online: 14 July 2021

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The recombination of charge carriers arriving from the random charge movement in semiconductor photocatalysts greatly limits the practical application of solar-driven H₂ evolution. The design of photocatalytic systems with spatially oriented charge-transfer is a promising route to achieve high charge-separation efficiency for photocatalysts. Herein, novel sea-urchin-like ReS₂ nanosheet/TiO₂ nanoparticle heterojunctions (SURTHs) are constructed. The unique sea-urchin-like structure endows the ReS₂ cocatalyst with an unusual charge edge-collection effect, which leads to a significant acceleration of charge separation and transfer, as evidenced by the well-designed selective photodeposition of Pt quantum dots in SURTHs. The markedly improved charge transfer capacity contributes to a high photocatalytic H₂ evolution rate of 3.71 mmol h^-1 g^-1 for SURTHs (an apparent quantum efficiency (AQE) of 16.09%), up to 231.9 times by contrast with that of P25 TiO₂. This work would provide a new platform for designing the high-efficiency cocatalyst/photocatalyst system with excellent charge transfer capacity.
- Sea-urchin-like ReS₂ nanosheets,
- Charge edge-collection effect,
- 2D planar edges/tips,
- Charge transfer,
- Photocatalytic H₂ evolution
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