Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 16, Issue 1, 005(2024)

Understanding Bridging Sites and Accelerating Quantum Efficiency for Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction

Kangwang Wang1... Zhuofeng Hu2, Peifeng Yu1, Alina M. Balu3, Kuan Li1, Longfu Li1, Lingyong Zeng1, Chao Zhang1, Rafael Luque4,5, Kai Yan2,* and Huixia Luo1,** |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1School of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Magnetoelectric Physics and Devices, Key Lab of Polymer Composite and Functional Materials, Sun Yat-Sen University, No. 135, Xingang Xi Road, Guangzhou 510275, People’s Republic of China
  • 2School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, No. 135, Xingang Xi Road, Guangzhou 510275, People’s Republic of China
  • 3Departamento de Química Orgánica, Universidad de Córdoba, Campus Universitario de Rabanales, Edificio Marie Curie (C3), 14014 Córdoba, Spain
  • 4Center for Refining and Advanced Chemicals, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, 31261 Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
  • 5Universidad ECOTEC, Km 13.5 Samborondón, EC092302 Samborondón, Ecuador
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    We report a novel double-shelled nanoboxes photocatalyst architecture with tailored interfaces that accelerate quantum efficiency for photocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) via Mo–S bridging bonds sites in Sv–In2S3@2H–MoTe2. The X-ray absorption near-edge structure shows that the formation of Sv–In2S3@2H–MoTe2 adjusts the coordination environment via interface engineering and forms Mo–S polarized sites at the interface. The interfacial dynamics and catalytic behavior are clearly revealed by ultrafast femtosecond transient absorption, time-resolved, and in situ diffuse reflectance–Infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy. A tunable electronic structure through steric interaction of Mo–S bridging bonds induces a 1.7-fold enhancement in Sv–In2S3@2H–MoTe2(5) photogenerated carrier concentration relative to pristine Sv–In2S3. Benefiting from lower carrier transport activation energy, an internal quantum efficiency of 94.01% at 380 nm was used for photocatalytic CO2RR. This study proposes a new strategy to design photocatalyst through bridging sites to adjust the selectivity of photocatalytic CO2RR.

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    Kangwang Wang, Zhuofeng Hu, Peifeng Yu, Alina M. Balu, Kuan Li, Longfu Li, Lingyong Zeng, Chao Zhang, Rafael Luque, Kai Yan, Huixia Luo. Understanding Bridging Sites and Accelerating Quantum Efficiency for Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16(1): 005

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Jun. 28, 2023

    Accepted: Sep. 24, 2023

    Published Online: Jan. 23, 2025

    The Author Email: Yan Kai (yank9@mail.sysu.edu.cn), Luo Huixia (luohx7@mail.sysu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s40820-023-01221-3

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