Stacking-Layer-Number Dependence of Water Adsorption in 3D Ordered Close-Packed g-C3 N4 Nanosphere Arrays for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution.

Water adsorption capacity is a key factor to influence the photocatalytic H2 evolution activity of polymeric g-C3 N4  . Herein, we report the synthesis of 3D ordered close-packed g-C3 N4 nanosphere arrays (CNAs) that significantly enhance the water adsorption capacity. Through precisely controlling the average stacking-layer number (ASLN) of the nanospheres in CNAs, we reveal an interesting stacking-layer-number dependence of water adsorption in the newly designed CNAs for accelerating the H2 evolution reaction, which can be attributed to the differences in adsorption surface areas and adsorption sites endowed by the point-defect cavities in sample CNAs.