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Mesoporous resin nanobowls with optimized donor-acceptor conjugation for highly efficient photocatalytic hydrogen peroxide production

Ling Yuan1, Chaoqi Zhang1, Jing Wang1, Chao Liu1( ), Chengzhong Yu1,2( )
School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
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Design of metal-free photocatalysts with customized chemical structure and nano-architecture is promising for photocatalytic hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) production. Herein, for the first time, mesoporous resorcinol-formaldehyde (MRF) nanobowls with optimized benzenoid-quinoid donor-acceptor (D-A) couples have been synthesized via an assembly-hydrothermal-etching process as high-performance photocatalysts for H2O2 production in a sacrificial agent-free system. At the hydrothermal temperature of ~ 250 °C, MRF-250 exhibits optimized structural features including a large surface area, suitable D-A couple ratio, enhanced light absorption, charge-hole separation and mass transfer. Thus, MRF-250 shows an unexpected H2O2 yield of 19.4 mM·g-1·h-1 in pure water, outperforming other RF samples prepared under different conditions and superior to most reported metal-free photocatalysts without the aid of sacrificial agents. Our work paves the way towards the elaborate design of highly effective metal-free photocatalysts for H2O2 production.

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mesoporoushydrogen peroxidedonor-acceptor couplesresinphotocatalysts

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Nano Research
Volume 14 Issue 9,
September 2021
Pages 3267-3273
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-021-3517-6
Cite this article:
Yuan L, Zhang C, Wang J, et al. Mesoporous resin nanobowls with optimized donor-acceptor conjugation for highly efficient photocatalytic hydrogen peroxide production. Nano Research, 2021, 14(9): 3267-3273. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3517-6
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Received: 16 January 2021
Revised: 11 March 2021
Accepted: 12 April 2021
Published: 04 May 2021
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