Citation: Yu Zhang, Liting Wu, Shaopeng Wang, Dingyi Yang, Huan Liang, Yizhang Wu, Jian Hao, Youqing Wang, Jianke Liu, Yong Wang. Enhanced visible-light photocatalytic hydrogen evolution using two-dimensional carbon nitride sheets with the removal of amine groups[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2024, 35(2): 108551. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2023.108551 shu

Enhanced visible-light photocatalytic hydrogen evolution using two-dimensional carbon nitride sheets with the removal of amine groups

Yu Zhang ^{a, 1*,} ,
Liting Wu ^{b, 1} ,
Shaopeng Wang ^b ,
Dingyi Yang ^b ,
Huan Liang ^b ,
Yizhang Wu ^{d, *,} ,
Jian Hao ^e ,
Youqing Wang ^a ,
Jianke Liu ^a ,
Yong Wang ^{b, c, *,}

a.
Department of Physics, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710021, China
b.
School of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Academy of Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Xidian University, Xi'an 710126, China
c.
The State Key Discipline Laboratory of Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an 710126, China
d.
Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
e.
State Key Laboratory of High-Efficiency Utilization of Coal and Green Chemical Engineering, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021, China

zhangy0827@sust.edu.cn

yzwu@smail.nju.edu.cn

yongwang@xidian.edu.cn

Received Date: 9 January 2023
Revised Date: 9 April 2023
Accepted Date: 9 May 2023
Available Online: 11 May 2023

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Two-dimensional (2D) carbon nitride sheets (CNs) with atomically thin structures are regarded as one of the most promising materials for solar energy conversion. However, due to their substantially enlarged bandgap caused by the strong quantum size effect and their incomplete polymerisation with a large number of non-condensed surface amino groups, the practical applicability of CNs in photocatalysis is limited. In this study, CNs with broad visible-light absorption were synthesised using a 5-min fast thermal annealing. The removal of uncondensed amine groups reduces the bandgap of CNs from 3.06 eV to 2.60 eV, increasing their absorption of visible light. Interestingly, the CNs were distorted after annealing, which can differentiate the spatial positions of electrons and holes, enhancing the visible-light absorption efficiency. As a result, when exposed to visible light, the photocatalytic hydrogen production activity of atomically thin 2D CNs rose by 8.38 times. This research presents a dependable and speedy method for creating highly effective visible-light photocatalysts with narrowed bandgaps and improved visible-light absorption.
- 2D carbon nitride sheets,
- Rapid thermal annealing,
- DFT calculations,
- Visible-light absorption,
- visible-light photocatalysis
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