Designing 2D carbon dot nanoreactors for alcohol oxidation coupled with hydrogen evolution.

ABSTRACT: The coupled green energy and chemical production by photocatalysis represents a promising sustainable pathway, which poses great challenges for the multifunction integration of catalytic systems. Here we show a promising green photocatalyst design using Cu-ZnIn₂S₄ nanosheets and carbon dots as building units, which enables the integration of reaction, mass transfer, and separation functions in the nano-space, mimicking a nanoreactor. This function integration results in great activity promotion for benzyl alcohol oxidation coupled H₂ production, with H₂/benzaldehyde production rates of 45.95/46.47 mmol g^-1 h^-1, 36.87 and 36.73 times to pure ZnIn₂S₄, respectively, owning to the enhanced charge accumulati

SUBMITTER: Chen Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11401949 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature