Band Engineering of Semiconducting Microporous Graphitic Carbons by Phosphorous Doping: Enhancing of Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting

[EN] Carbon-based solar photocatalysts for overall water splitting could provide H2 as an energy vector in a clean and sustainable way. Band engineering to align energy levels can be achieved, among other ways, by doping. Herein, it is shown that phosphorous doping of microporous graphitic carbons d...

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Authors: Garcia-Mulero, Ana, Rendón-Patiño, Alejandra, Asiri, Abdullah M., Primo Arnau, Ana Maria|||0000-0001-9205-2278, García Gómez, Hermenegildo|||0000-0002-9664-493X
Format: article
Publication Date:2021
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repository:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/182760
Online Access:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/182760
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Band alignment by doping
Cyclodextrins
Microporous crystalline carbon
Photocatalysis
Photocatalytic hydrogen generation
Photodeposition
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Summary:[EN] Carbon-based solar photocatalysts for overall water splitting could provide H2 as an energy vector in a clean and sustainable way. Band engineering to align energy levels can be achieved, among other ways, by doping. Herein, it is shown that phosphorous doping of microporous graphitic carbons derived from pyrolysis of ¿-, ß-, and ¿-cyclodextrin increases the valence band edge energy of the material, and the energy value of the conduction band decreases with the P content. In this way, P doping increases the activity of these metal-free materials in photocatalytic overall water splitting under simulated sunlight and visible-light illumination. The optimal P-doped photocatalyst in the absence of any metal as a cocatalyst affords, after 4 h of irradiation with simulated sunlight, a H2 production of 2.5 mmol of H2 × gcatalyst¿1 in the presence of methanol as the sacrificial agent or 225 ¿mol of H2 × gcatalyst¿1 from pure H2O.