Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2024, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (3): 20230468.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20230468

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Construction of EI/P25/Zr-MOFs Heterojunction and Its Performance for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production

MOU Di1, WU Haiyang1, ZHANG Nanqi1, AN Zhaokun1, HE Xuan1(), ZHANG Fuqing2, ZHAO Lei1(), CHEN Hui1, FANG Wei1, DU Xing1, WANG Daheng1, LI Weixin1   

  1. 1.State Key Laboratory of Refractories and Metallurgy,Wuhan University of Science and Technology,Wuhan 430081,China
    2.School of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering,Wuhan Institute of Technology,Wuhan 430070,China
  • Received:2023-11-10 Online:2024-03-10 Published:2024-01-31
  • Contact: HE Xuan, ZHAO Lei E-mail:xuan.he@wust.edu.cn;zhaolei@wust.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    the Open Project of Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Engineering Process of Ministry of Education, China(GCP2022003);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(22105151);the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province, China(2021CFB469)

Abstract:

UiO-66-NH2(NUO) has been used for photocatalytic hydrogen generation due to its excellent water stability, but its hydrogen production efficiency still needs to be improved. In this paper, EI/P25/NUO heterojunction was synthesized by adding 2-(2-fluorenyl)-4,5-1-bromodiphenyl-imidazole(EI) and P25 in NUO precursor solution via hydrothermal method. Compared with single Zr-MOFs and binary EI/NUO, the visible-light-driven photocatalytic hydrogen production rate of the EI/P25/NUO heterojunction can reach 6530.60 μmol·g-1·h-1, which is 304 times and 34 times higher than that of NUO and EI/NUO, respectively. This is because the introduction of EI can effectively improve the concentration of photogenerated carriers in the system, and the electron transport layer P25 can promote the transfer of photogenerated electrons generated by EI to NUO, reduce the recombination probability of photogenerated carriers, and further improve the performance of photocatalytic water decomposition for hydrogen production.

Key words: EI/P25/NUO heterojunction, Photocatalytic hydrogen production, Charge transfer

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