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Insight on Shallow Trap States-Introduced Photocathodic Performance in n-Type Polymer Photocatalysts.


ABSTRACT: Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) is a robust organic semiconductor photocatalyst with proven H2 evolution ability. However, its application in a photoelectrochemical system as a photocathode for H2 production is extremely challenging with the majority of reports representing it as a photoanode. Despite research into constructing g-C3N4 photocathodes in recent years, factors affecting an n-type semiconductor's properties as a photocathode are still not well-understood. The current work demonstrates an effective strategy to transform an n-type g-C3N4 photoanode material into an efficient photocathode through introducing electron trap states associated with both N-defects and C-OH terminal groups. As compared to the g-C3N4 photoelectrode, this strategy develops 2 orders of magnitude higher conductivity and 3 orders of magnitude longer-lived shallow-trapped charges. Furthermore, the average OCVD lifetime observed for def-g-C3N4 is 5 times longer than that observed for g-C3N4. Thus, clear photocathode behavior has been observed with negative photocurrent densities of around -10 ?A/cm2 at 0 V vs RHE. Open circuit photovoltage decay (OCVD), Mott-Schottky (MS) plot, and transient absorption spectroscopy (TAS) provide consistent evidence that long-lived shallow-trapped electrons that exist at about the microsecond time scale after photoexcitation are key to the photocathode behavior observed for defect-rich g-C3N4, thus further demonstrating g-C3N4 can be both a photoanode and a photocathode candidate.

SUBMITTER: Ruan Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7145347 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Insight on Shallow Trap States-Introduced Photocathodic Performance in n-Type Polymer Photocatalysts.

Ruan Qiushi Q   Miao Tina T   Wang Hui H   Tang Junwang J  

Journal of the American Chemical Society 20200128 6


Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C<sub>3</sub>N<sub>4</sub>) is a robust organic semiconductor photocatalyst with proven H<sub>2</sub> evolution ability. However, its application in a photoelectrochemical system as a photocathode for H<sub>2</sub> production is extremely challenging with the majority of reports representing it as a photoanode. Despite research into constructing g-C<sub>3</sub>N<sub>4</sub> photocathodes in recent years, factors affecting an n-type semiconductor's properties as a phot  ...[more]

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