High‐Performance Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation with Phosphorus‐Doped and Metal Phosphide Cocatalyst‐Modified g‐C3N4 Formation Through Gas Treatment
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Abstract
Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3 N4 ) has been widely explored as a photocatalyst for water splitting. The anodic water oxidation reaction (WOR) remains a major obstacle for such processes, with issues such as low surface area of g-C3 N4 , poor light absorption, and low charge-transfer efficiency. In this work, such longtime concerns have been partially addressed with band gap and surface engineering of nanostructured graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3 N4 ). Specifically, surface area and charge-transfer efficiency are significantly enhanced through architecting g-C3 N4 on nanorod TiO2 to avoid aggregation of layered g-C3 N4 . Moreover, a simple phosphide gas treatment of TiO2 /g-C3 N4 configuration not only narrows the band gap of g-C3 N4 by 0.57 eV shifting it into visible range but also generates in situ a metal phosphide (M=Fe, Cu) water oxidation cocatalyst. This TiO2 /g-C3 N4 /FeP configuration significantly improves charge separation and transfer capability. As a result, our non-noble-metal photoelectrochemical system yields outstanding visible light (>420 nm) photocurrent: approximately 0.3 mA cm-2 at 1.23 V and 1.1 mA cm-2 at 2.0 V versus RHE, which is the highest for a g-C3 N4 -based photoanode. It is expected that the TiO2 /g-C3 N4 /FeP configuration synthesized by a simple phosphide gas treatment will provide new insight for producing robust g-C3 N4 for water oxidation.
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