Abstract
Organic-inorganic perovskites like MAPbI3 with excellent optoelectric properties have recently gained concerns in photocatalytic HI splitting. However, their achieved hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) rates are still insufficient. Herein, a 2D few-layer black phosphorus (BP) as cocatalyst was anchored on MAPbI3 via electrostatic coupling. The resultant BP/MAPbI3 is rather stable in HI solution during the whole photoreaction, yielding a superb HER rate of 3742 μmol h−1 g−1 under visible irradiation, which is two orders of magnitude higher than that of MAPbI3-only, far higher than that of MAPbI3/Pt and also shows the advanced HER performance among MAPbI3 based systems. The remarkably boosted HER activity is thoroughly explored by optical/optoelectrochemical measurements, showing that BP can act as an electron promoter to trap electrons derived from MAPbI3 through a type I heterojunction in the interface. This contributes to a new paradigm for high-efficiency photocatalysts by anchoring non-metal cocatalyst onto MAPbI3 for solar energy conversion.
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