Photocatalytic seawater splitting is an attractive way for producing green hydrogen.Significant progresses have been made recently in catalytic efficiencies,but the activity of catalysts can only maintain stable for a...Photocatalytic seawater splitting is an attractive way for producing green hydrogen.Significant progresses have been made recently in catalytic efficiencies,but the activity of catalysts can only maintain stable for about 10 h.Here,we develop a vacancy-engineered Ag_(3)PO_(4)/CdS porous microreactor chip photocatalyst,operating in seawater with a performance stability exceeding 300 h.This is achieved by the establishment of both catalytic selectivity for impurity ions and tailored interactions between vacancies and sulfur species.Efficient transport of carriers with strong redox ability is ensured by forming a heterojunction within a space charge region,where the visualization of potential distribution confirms the key design concept of our chip.Moreover,the separation of oxidation and reduction reactions in space inhibits the reverse recombination,making the chip capable of working at atmospheric pressure.Consequently,in the presence of Pt co-catalysts,a high solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of 0.81%can be achieved in the whole durability test.When using a fully solar-driven 256 cm2 hydrogen production prototype,a H_(2) evolution rate of 68.01 mmol h−1 m−2 can be achieved under outdoor insolation.Our findings provide a novel approach to achieve high selectivity,and demonstrate an efficient and scalable prototype suitable for practical solar H_(2) production.展开更多
基金support from the Industry-University Cooperation Project of Fujian Province(2023H6003)F.L.gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Fuzhou Fuzhi Photocatalysis Research Center+1 种基金Q.C.gratefully acknowledges financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(22022205,22372193)the CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research(YSBR-054).
文摘Photocatalytic seawater splitting is an attractive way for producing green hydrogen.Significant progresses have been made recently in catalytic efficiencies,but the activity of catalysts can only maintain stable for about 10 h.Here,we develop a vacancy-engineered Ag_(3)PO_(4)/CdS porous microreactor chip photocatalyst,operating in seawater with a performance stability exceeding 300 h.This is achieved by the establishment of both catalytic selectivity for impurity ions and tailored interactions between vacancies and sulfur species.Efficient transport of carriers with strong redox ability is ensured by forming a heterojunction within a space charge region,where the visualization of potential distribution confirms the key design concept of our chip.Moreover,the separation of oxidation and reduction reactions in space inhibits the reverse recombination,making the chip capable of working at atmospheric pressure.Consequently,in the presence of Pt co-catalysts,a high solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of 0.81%can be achieved in the whole durability test.When using a fully solar-driven 256 cm2 hydrogen production prototype,a H_(2) evolution rate of 68.01 mmol h−1 m−2 can be achieved under outdoor insolation.Our findings provide a novel approach to achieve high selectivity,and demonstrate an efficient and scalable prototype suitable for practical solar H_(2) production.
