A core-shell type Co19-added polyoxometalate for visible-light-driven photocatalytic hydrogen evolution
摘要
A core-shell type Co19-added polyoxometalate H17Na4Cs21[Co19(μ3-OH)12(A-α-SiW10O37)6]·8Cl·12H2O (1) has been made under hydrothermal conditions guided by the lacunary directing synthetic strategy. Single crystal X-ray diffraction (SXRD) has shown that 19 Co2+ are arranged in a flat plane through edge sharing in a mode of 3-4-5-4-3, forming a core-shell type polyanion cluster {Co19(SiW10)6} with a diameter of approximately 2.24 nm. Visible-light-driven photocatalytic hydrogen evolution performance studies have shown that 1 is an efficient heterogeneous water reduction catalyst (WRC) with the H2 evolution rate of 2902.5 µmol h−1 g−1. Moreover, the cycle tests indicated that 1 was also a good heterogeneous catalyst.