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Título: A bifunctional catalyst based on a carbon quantum dots/mesoporous SrTiO3 heterostructure for cascade photoelectrochemical nitrogen reduction
Autores/as: Hu, Yongming
Zhao, Zhi Liang
Ahmad, Rafia
Harb, Moussab
Cavallo, Luigi
Azofra Mesa, Luis Miguel 
Jiang, San Ping
Zhang, Xinyi
Clasificación UNESCO: 221001 Catálisis
230320 Compuestos del nitrógeno
Fecha de publicación: 2022
Publicación seriada: Journal of Materials Chemistry A 
Resumen: Despite considerable progress in the field of sustainable ammonia technology, the low efficiency and yield have remained the main bottleneck in artificial nitrogen fixation under ambient conditions. In this work, an ultrathin carbon quantum dot modified hydrogenated mesoporous SrTiO3 heterostructure (CQDs/STO) has been developed as a bifunctional catalyst for enhanced nitrogen reduction. CQDs/STO exhibits a high photocatalytic activity and an ammonia yield of 143 μmol g−1 h−1 has been achieved without any sacrificial reagent, which is about 7 times that of STO nanoparticles. Furthermore, we demonstrate that CQDs/STO can be utilized as a bifunctional catalyst for cascade photoelectrochemical nitrogen reduction, resulting in a ∼50% increase in the ammonia yield. DFT calculations reveal that the synergy between SrTiO3 and CQDs has the capability for photocatalytic reduction of N2 with the O-vacancies in SrTiO3 playing a key role also as electrocatalytic centers. We believe that such a cascade catalytic system provides a new insight into designing photoelectrochemical devices for solar-driven nitrogen fixation.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/115448
ISSN: 2050-7488
DOI: 10.1039/d2ta02187k
Fuente: Journal of Materials Chemistry A [ISSN 2050-7488], n. 23, (Enero 2022)
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