Constructing a WC/NCN Schottky Junction for Rapid Electron Transfer and Enrichment for Highly Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution.

The low charge-transfer efficiency and slow surface reaction kinetics are the main factors affecting the performance of carbon nitride photocatalysts. Here, a Schottky heterostructure (WCN) was constructed by combining WC with porous carbon nitride nanosheets with a cyanide group (NCN). The Schottky junction provides a convenient way for photoinduced electrons to transfer and promotes the effective separation of photoinduced carriers. Furthermore, due to the good conductivity of WC and an electronic structure similar to Pt, the W atom in WC as the active site of hydrogen production can realize efficient reaction kinetics. In this way, the WCN Schottky heterostructure showed a 2.0- and 5.0-fold enhancement in photocatalytic H2 evolution as compared to the single NCN component under visible-light and near-infrared light irradiation. By combining with theoretical simulations, as an electron acceptor in the WCN heterostructure, WC can effectively improve the charge-transfer efficiency and also act as an active site for hydrogen production.

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