Issue 37, 2022

Conductive polymer mediated earth abundant Z-scheme g-C3N4/Fe2O3 heterostructure with excellent photocatalytic activity

Abstract

Iron being the second most abundant metal on the surface of the earth (5.1%), size-confined iron-based photocatalysts are of particular importance for solar energy conversion. Herein, a ternary Z-scheme g-C3N4/PPy/Fe2O3 heterostructure photocatalyst with PPy supporting and confining Fe2O3 was designed and fabricated for hydrogen production using a facile method. The small particle size of Fe2O3 (around 5 nm) improved the transport efficiency of charge carriers with the conductive PPy acting as a mediator, and the formation of the g-C3N4–Fe2O3 Z-scheme heterostructure dramatically facilitated the photocatalytic activity. Consequently, the optimal g-C3N4–PPy–Fe2O3 demonstrated an excellent photocatalytic hydrogen evolution activity, which was 120, 6.4 and 4.8 times larger than that of the pristine g-C3N4 and g-C3N4 singly loaded separately with PPy and Fe2O3, respectively, and exhibited considerable H2 and H2O2 production activity even in the absence of a sacrificial agent.

Graphical abstract: Conductive polymer mediated earth abundant Z-scheme g-C3N4/Fe2O3 heterostructure with excellent photocatalytic activity

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
28 Jul 2022
Accepted
23 Aug 2022
First published
24 Aug 2022

CrystEngComm, 2022,24, 6558-6563

Conductive polymer mediated earth abundant Z-scheme g-C3N4/Fe2O3 heterostructure with excellent photocatalytic activity

Y. Liu, G. Pan, X. He, T. Li, F. Liu and K. Li, CrystEngComm, 2022, 24, 6558 DOI: 10.1039/D2CE01036D

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