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Rui Shi1, Chengcheng Tian2, Xiang Zhu2,3,4, Cheng-Yun Peng1, Bingbao Mei5, Lin He3, Xian-Long Du5, Zheng Jiang5, Yong Chen1, Sheng Dai2.
Abstract
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) have shown great potential in a wide variety of chemical reactions and become the most active new frontier in catalysis due to the maximum efficiency of metal atom use. The key obstacle in preparing SAs lies in the development of appropriate supports that can avoid aggregation or sintering during synthetic procedures. As such, achieving high loadings of isolated SAs is nontrivial and challenging. Conventional methods usually afford the formation of SAs with extremely low loadings (less than 1.5 wt%). In this work, a new in situ preparation strategy that enables the synthesis of isolated cobalt (Co) SAs with an exceptionally high metal loading, up to 5.9 wt%, is developed. The approach is based on a simple one-step pyrolysis of a nitrogen-enriched molecular carbon precursor (1,4,5,8,9,12-hexaazatriphenylene hexacarbonitrile) and CoCl2. Furthermore, due to the successful electron transfer from carbon nitride to the isolated Co SAs, we demonstrate a high-performance photocatalytic H2 production using Co SAs as a co-catalyst, and the evolution rate is measured to be 1180 μmol g-1 h-1. We anticipate that this new study will inspire the discovery of more isolated SACs with high metal loadings, evidently advancing the development of this emerging type of advanced catalysts.Entities:
Year: 2019 PMID: 30996973 PMCID: PMC6428031 DOI: 10.1039/c8sc05540h
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Chem Sci ISSN: 2041-6520 Impact factor: 9.825
Scheme 1Synthesis route and proposed structure for isolated Co single atoms.
Fig. 1TEM (a and c) and HAADF-STEM (b) images of Co–N–C. Normalized Co K-edge XANES spectra of Co–N–C in reference to Co foil (d). (b) k3-weighted Fourier-transform Co K-edge EXAFS spectra of Co foil (e) and Co–N–C (f), respectively.
Fig. 2(a) Photocatalytic H2 evolution rate for various contents of Co–N–C/g-C3N4 composites from 10 vol% TEOA aqueous solution (b) comparison of photo-generating H2 under different conditions.
Fig. 3(a) PL spectra excited at 420 nm for the Co–N–C, g-C3N4 and Co–N–C/g-C3N4 composite, (b) EIS spectroscopy of g-C3N4 and Co–N–C/g-C3N4, (c) TIRA spectra of Co–N–C, g-C3N4, and Co–N–C/g-C3N4 excited at 600 nm, and (d) TIRA spectra of Co–N–C, g-C3N4 and Co–N–C/g-C3N4 excited at 420 nm. (e) Schematic of photogenerated charge transfer in the Co–N–C/g-C3N4 composite under visible light irradiation.
Fig. 4(a) The synthesis of Co SAs by varying the molar ratio of HAT-6CN and CoCl2 (from 1 : 10 to 1 : 30); (b) the H2 evolution rate of Co–N–C with various Co loadings; (c) XRD patterns of Co–N–Cs prepared by varying the molar ratios and (d) HAADF-STEM image of Co–N–C with 5.9 wt% Co SACs [HAT-6CN : CoCl2 = 1 : 30].