Citation: Linyu Zhu, Xu Tian, Guang Shi, Wenchi Zhang, Peisong Tang, Mohamed Bououdina, Sajjad Ali, Pengfei Xia. Assembling 3D cross-linked network by carbon nitride nanowires for visible-light photocatalytic H₂ evolution from dyestuffs wastewater[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2025, 36(12): 111088. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2025.111088 shu

Assembling 3D cross-linked network by carbon nitride nanowires for visible-light photocatalytic H₂ evolution from dyestuffs wastewater

Linyu Zhu ^a ,
Xu Tian ^a ,
Guang Shi ^a ,
Wenchi Zhang ^a ,
Peisong Tang ^a ,
Mohamed Bououdina ^c ,
Sajjad Ali ^{c, *,} ,
Pengfei Xia ^{b, *,}

a.
Department of Materials and Chemistry, Huzhou University, Huzhou 313000, China
b.
School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
c.
Energy, Water, and Environment Lab, College of Humanities and Sciences, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh 11586, Saudi Arabia

sajjad@psu.edu.sa

forsky@csj.uestc.edu.cn

Received Date: 14 August 2024
Revised Date: 5 February 2025
Accepted Date: 13 March 2025
Available Online: 14 March 2025

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Photocatalytic H₂ evolution from wastewater exhibits fascinating prospects in environment and energy fields. Here, we propose a novel 3D cross-linked g-C₃N₄ network (SCN) assembling with 1D nanowires. This network structure endows SCN with abundant carbon defects, creating a defect energy level and shallow charge trapping centres, which significantly prolongs the photocarrier lifetime, suppresses their recombination and facilitates the mass transfer process during the dye photodegradation. Consequently, in photocatalytic H₂ evolution coupled with Rhodamine B (RhB) photodegradation under visible light, the H₂ production rate of SCN is 283 µmol h⁻¹ g⁻¹, accompanying by 97% RhB photodegradation efficiency, much higher than UCN’s 31 µmol h⁻¹ g⁻¹ and 64%. In particular, AQY of SCN for H₂ evolution from RhB solution reaches 23.7% at 380 nm. Furthermore, the calculated transition states demonstrate that the N1 site connected to the defect in SCN has a minimum Gibbs free energy ∆G (H*), indicating that H⁺ undergoes an H⁺ → H* → H₂ evolution process.
- Photocatalysis,
- Carbon nitride,
- 3D cross-linked network,
- H₂ evolution from wastewater,
- Reaction mechanism
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