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It is highly desirable but challenging to optimize the electronic structure of an active site to realize moderate active site-H-ads bond energies for boosting photocatalytic H-2 evolution. Herein, an interfacial engineering strategy is developed to simultaneously concentrate hydrogen species and accelerate the combination of an H-ads intermediate to generate free H-2 by constructing W-WC-W2C (WCC) cocatalysts. Systematic investigations reveal that hybridizing with W2C creates electron-rich W active sites and effectively induces the downshift of the d-band center of W in WC. Consequently, the strong W-H-ads bonds on the surface of WC are weakened, thus promoting the desorption of H-ads to rapidly produce free H-2. The optimized 40-WCC/CdS photocatalyst exhibits a high hydrogen evolution rate of 63.6 mmol g(-1) h(-1) under visible light (>= 420 nm) with an apparent quantum efficiency of 39.5% at 425 nm monochromatic light, which is about 40-fold of the pristine CdS. This work offers insights into the design of cocatalyst for high-efficiency photocatalytic H-2 production.
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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
ISSN: 0020-1669
Year: 2024
Issue: 9
Volume: 63
Page: 4279-4287
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