Interfacial charge transfer in 0D/2D defect-rich heterostructures for efficient solar-driven CO2 reduction

Abstract Two-dimensional graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) has been widely explored as a promising photocatalyst for solar CO2 conversion. However, rapid charge recombination and low visible-light utilization are severely detrimental to photocatalytic CO2 conversion. Zero-dimensional/two-dimensional (0D/2D) heterostructures are considered the promising materials with size tunability and enhanced charge separation efficiency for photocatalysis. Herein, a 0D/2D heterostructure of oxygen vacancy-rich TiO2 quantum dots confined in g-C3N4 nanosheets (TiO2-x/g-C3N4) was prepared by in-situ pyrolysis of NH2-MIL-125 (Ti) and melamine. Charge dynamics analysis by time-resolved photoluminescence (tr-PL) and femtosecond and nanosecond pump-probed transient absorption (TA) spectra revealed that charges transfer occured from 2D-g-C3N4 to 0D-TiO2 at an ultrafast subpicosecond time scale (

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