题目：Engineering ZnIn₂S₄ with efficient charge separation and utilization for synergistic accelerate dual-function photocatalysis

作者：Zisheng Du, Chan Guo, Mingchun Guo, Sugang Meng^*, Yang Yang, Zhiruo Yu, Xiuzhen Zheng, Sujuan Zhang, Cheng Chen^*, Shifu Chen^*

单位：Key Laboratory of Green and Precise Synthetic Chemistry and Applications, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, 235000, China.

 摘要：Combining photocatalytic reduction with organic synthetic oxidation in the same photocatalytic redox system can effectively utilize photoexcited electrons and holes from solar to chemical energy. Here, we stabilized 0D Au clusters on the substrate surface of  Zn vacancies modified 2D ZnIn₂S₄ (ZIS-V) nanosheets by chemically bonding Au-S interaction, forming surfactant functionalized Au/ZIS-V photocatalyst, which can not only synergistic accelerate the selective oxidation of phenylcarbinol to value-added products coupled with clean energy hydrogen production but also further drive photocatalytic CO₂-to-CO conversion. An internal electric field of Au/ZIS-V ohmic junction and Zn vacancies synchronously promote the photoexcited charge carrier separation and transfer to optimized active sites for redox reactions. Compared with CO₂ reduction in water and the pristine ZnIn₂S₄, the reaction thermodynamics and kinetics of  CO₂ reduction over the Au/ZIS-V were simultaneously improved about 11.09 and 45.51 times, respectively. Moreover, the photocatalytic redox mechanisms were also profoundly studied by ¹³CO₂ isotope tracing tests, in situ electron paramagnetic resonance (in situ EPR), in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (in situ XPS), in situ diffuse reflection infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (in situ DRIFTS) and density functional theory (DFT) characterizations, etc. These results demonstrate the advantages of vacancies coupled with metal clusters in the synergetic enhancement of photocatalytic redox performance and have great potential applications in a wide range of environments and energy.

 影响因子：9.4

分区情况：一区

链接：https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1jcZv4-sDf7HU https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2024.08.095

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