Issue 1, 2020

Layered metallic vanadium diboride as an active cocatalyst for efficient dye-sensitized photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

Abstract

Here, we report that layered metallic vanadium diboride (VB2) can function as an active cocatalyst for efficiently catalyzing photocatalytic hydrogen evolution in a dye-sensitized system under visible light irradiation. In an Erythrosin B–triethanolamine (ErB–TEOA) molecular system, the highest turnover number (TON) of hydrogen evolution based on ErB reaches 40. In addition, VB2 outperforms V2O5, VS2, VN, and VC for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution.

Graphical abstract: Layered metallic vanadium diboride as an active cocatalyst for efficient dye-sensitized photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
18 sep 2019
Accepted
23 nov 2019
First published
26 nov 2019

Sustainable Energy Fuels, 2020,4, 116-120

Layered metallic vanadium diboride as an active cocatalyst for efficient dye-sensitized photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

W. Li, S. Min, F. Wang and Z. Zhang, Sustainable Energy Fuels, 2020, 4, 116 DOI: 10.1039/C9SE00820A

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