Highly efficient photocatalytic H2O2 generation over dysprosium oxide-integrated g-C3N4 nanosheets with nitrogen deficiency
2022
Ahmed, Mohamed Tarek | Abdullah, Hairus | Kuo, Dong-Hau
The increasing global crisis considers energy as the fundamental cause to conduct extensive research work to find clean alternative methods with high capabilities such as H₂O₂ synthesis. Photocatalytic H₂O₂ production can tackle this growing issue by maintaining environmental remediation. In this work, dysprosium oxide (Dy-oxide)-integrated g-C₃N₄ has been synthesized and characterized with XRD, SEM, TEM, XPS, EPR, DRS, PL, and electrochemical analyses. Simulated solar light irradiation implemented photocatalytic H₂O₂ production using the as-prepared catalysts. The facile preparation technique in the Ar atmosphere raises more N deficiency in the g-C₃N₄ matrix. N-deficient g-C₃N₄ nanosheets with an exceptionally high photocatalytic performance can be further enhanced by integrating well-dispersed Dysprosium oxide (Dy₂O₃) particles onto g-C₃N₄. This study reports bandgap narrowing and various surface defects on g-C₃N₄ with trace amounts of Dy₂O₃. Undoped g-C₃N₄ (Dy0) yielded 20.27 mM⋅g⁻¹⋅h⁻¹, while the optimized photocatalyst Dy15 showed high performance of H₂O₂ production up to 48.36 mM⋅g⁻¹⋅h⁻¹. It is approximately 2.4 times higher than the pristine g-C₃N₄. Dy15 proves the positive impact of Dy-oxide on enhancing the N-deficient g-C₃N₄ performance towards photocatalytic H₂O₂ production. This work highlights the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) through a mixed pathway of well-known two-step one-electron and one-step two-electron processes in H₂O₂ generation.
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