Black Phosphorus/Platinum Heterostructure: A Highly Efficient Photocatalyst for Solar‐Driven Chemical Reactions |
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| Authors: | Licheng Bai Xin Wang Shaobin Tang Yihong Kang Jiahong Wang Ying Yu Zhang‐Kai Zhou Chao Ma Xue Zhang Jun Jiang Paul K. Chu Xue‐Feng Yu |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Center for Biomedical Materials and Interfaces, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, P. R. China;2. Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, P. R. China;3. Key Laboratory of Organo‐Pharmaceutical Chemistry of Jiangxi Province, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, P. R. China;4. State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat‐sen University, Guangzhou, P. R. China;5. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, P. R. China;6. Department of Physics and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China |
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| Abstract: | A 2D black phosphorus/platinum heterostructure (Pt/BP) is developed as a highly efficient photocatalyst for solar‐driven chemical reactions. The heterostructure, synthesized by depositing BP nanosheets with ultrasmall (≈1.1 nm) Pt nanoparticles, shows strong Pt–P interactions and excellent stability. The Pt/BP heterostructure exhibits obvious P‐type semiconducting characteristics and efficient absorption of solar energy extending into the infrared region. Furthermore, during light illumination, accelerated charge separation is observed from Pt/BP as manifested by the ultrafast electron migration (0.11 ps) detected by a femtosecond pump‐probe microscopic optical system as well as efficient electron accumulation on Pt revealed by in situ X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy. These unique properties result in remarkable performance of Pt/BP in typical hydrogenation and oxidation reactions under simulated solar light illumination, and its efficiency is much higher than that of other common Pt catalysts and even much superior to that of conventional thermal catalysis. The 2D Pt/BP heterostructure has enormous potential in photochemical reactions involving solar light and the results of this study provide insights into the design of next‐generation high‐efficiency photocatalysts. |
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| Keywords: | 2D materials black phosphorus heterostructures photocatalysis ultrasmall platinum nanoparticles |
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