Direct Synthesis of Graphdiyne Nanowalls on Arbitrary Substrates and Its Application for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting Cell

Xin Gao; Jian Li; Ran Du; Jingyuan Zhou; Mao-Yong Huang; Rong Liu; Jie Li; Ziqian Xie; Li-Zhu Wu; Zhongfan Liu; Jin Zhang

doi:10.1002/adma.201605308

Direct Synthesis of Graphdiyne Nanowalls on Arbitrary Substrates and Its Application for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting Cell

Adv Mater. 2017 Mar;29(9). doi: 10.1002/adma.201605308. Epub 2016 Dec 23.

Authors

Xin Gao¹, Jian Li², Ran Du¹, Jingyuan Zhou^{1

3}, Mao-Yong Huang², Rong Liu^{1

3}, Jie Li¹, Ziqian Xie¹, Li-Zhu Wu², Zhongfan Liu¹, Jin Zhang¹

Affiliations

¹ Center for Nanochemistry, Beijing Science and Engineering Center for Nanocarbons, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
² Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.
³ Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China.

PMID: 28009465
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201605308

Abstract

A general and simple route to fabricate graphdiyne nanowalls on arbitrary substrates is developed by using a copper envelope catalysis strategy. The GDY/BiVO₄ system is but one example of combing the unique properites of GDY with those target substrates where GDY improves the photoelectrochemical performance dramatically.

Keywords: BiVO4; arbitrary substrates; graphdiyne; photoelectrochemical water splitting.