Citation: Haimei Wu, Mengyuan Wang, Fang Jing, Derui Kong, Yifan Chen, Chunman Jia, Jianwei Li. Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen production performance of pillararene-doped mesoporous TiO₂ with extended visible-light response[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2022, 33(4): 1983-1987. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2021.09.095 shu

Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen production performance of pillararene-doped mesoporous TiO₂ with extended visible-light response

Haimei Wu ^a ,
Mengyuan Wang ^a ,
Fang Jing ^a ,
Derui Kong ^a ,
Yifan Chen ^{a, *,} ,
Chunman Jia ^{a, *,} ,
Jianwei Li ^{a, b, *,}

a.
Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Advanced Materials of Tropical Island Resources of Ministry of Education, College of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
b.
MediCity Research Laboratory, University of Turku, Tykistökatu 6, Turku 20520, Finland

chenyifan@hainanu.edu.cn

jiachunman@hainanu.edu.cn

jianwei.li@utu.fi

Received Date: 22 July 2021
Revised Date: 26 September 2021
Accepted Date: 27 September 2021
Available Online: 2 October 2021

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Pillararenes are a new type of supramolecular hosts, and they have been widely applied in drug delivery, catalysis, separation process, and sensors. However, they have rarely been used to produce hydrogen. Here, we report that pillararenes were used as functional molecules to explore photocatalysts and efficiently promoted hydrogen production from water. The most common and easily synthesized p-dimethoxy pillar[5]arene (PI-OMe) was employed to form an organic-inorganic hybrid material with titanium dioxide (TiO₂), denoted as PI-OMe-TiO_2, using a convenient sol-gel method. When the material was loaded with Pt nanoparticles, the resulting Pt/PI-OMe-TiO₂ had a good activity and stability in catalyzing water splitting to produce hydrogen under visible light. The optimized catalyst Pt/PI-OMe-TiO₂(5.2 wt%) had a photocatalytic hydrogen production rate of 1736 µmol g⁻¹ h⁻¹ under visible light (λ > 420 nm) irradiation. The catalyst with a Pt loading of 0.5 wt% and a PI-OMe content of 5.2 wt% also showed good long-term durability after 10 cycles of 50 h testing. The total amount of hydrogen produced was 65.01 mmol/g, and the corresponding turnover number (TON) value was 2084. Our findings suggest that pillararene derivatives are promising functional molecules to make efficient and stable hybrid photocatalysts with TiO₂ and open a new door to hydrogen production using visible light.
- Pillararene,
- Organic-inorganic hybrid materials,
- Visible-light photocatalysis,
- Water splitting,
- Hydrogen production
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