Citation: Jianjian Yi, Zhou Zhou, Yu Xia, Ganghua Zhou, Guoxiang Zhang, Li Li, Xuyu Wang, Xingwang Zhu, Xiaozhi Wang, Huan Pang. Unraveling the role of phase engineering in tuning photocatalytic hydrogen evolution activity and stability[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2023, 34(11): 108328. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2023.108328 shu

Unraveling the role of phase engineering in tuning photocatalytic hydrogen evolution activity and stability

Jianjian Yi ^{a, b} ,
Zhou Zhou ^a ,
Yu Xia ^a ,
Ganghua Zhou ^a ,
Guoxiang Zhang ^a ,
Li Li ^c ,
Xuyu Wang ^d ,
Xingwang Zhu ^a ,
Xiaozhi Wang ^{a, e, f, *,} ,
Huan Pang ^{b, **,}

a.
College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225127, China
b.
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225127, China
c.
Institute for Energy Research, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
d.
School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, China
e.
Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety of Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225127, China
f.
Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Solid Organic Waste Resource Utilization, Nanjing 210095, China

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xzwang@yzu.edu.cn

panghuan@yzu.edu.cn

Received Date: 19 October 2022
Revised Date: 12 February 2023
Accepted Date: 9 March 2023
Available Online: 13 March 2023

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In this work, taking NiSe₂ as a prototype to be used as cocatalyst in photocatalytic hydrogen evolution, we demonstrate that the crystal phase of NiSe₂ plays a vital role in determining the catalytic stability, rather than activity. Theoretical and experimental results indicate that the phase structure shows negligible influence to the charge transport and hydrogen adsorption capacity. When integrating with carbon nitride (CN) photocatalyst forming hybrids (m-NiSe₂/CN and p-NiSe₂/CN), the hybrids show comparable photocatalytic hydrogen evolution rates (3.26 µmol/h and 3.75 µmol/h). Unlike the comparable catalytic activity, we found that phase-engineered NiSe₂ exhibits distinct stability, i.e., m-NiSe₂ can evolve H₂ steadily, but p-NiSe₂ shows a significant decrease in catalytic process (~57.1% decrease in 25 h). The factor leading to different catalytic stability can be ascribed to the different surface conversion behavior during photocatalytic process, i.e., chemical structure of m-NiSe₂ can be well preserved in catalytic process, but partial p-NiSe₂ tends to be converted to NiOOH.
- Phase engineering,
- Hydrogen evolution,
- Photocatalysis,
- Cocatalyst,
- Surface reconstruction
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