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Polymeric carbon nitride (PCN, also called melon) was a potential photocatalyst for the CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR), but the conjugation of the system inhibited the efficiency. By modifying melon with non-metal elements such as boron (B), phosphorus (P), oxygen (O), and sulfur (S), we found that S (or O) doped melon (S/melon, O/melon) transformed the reactive site of pyridine nitrogen (N) to carbon (C), which promoted COOH* hydrogenation to CO* and, thus, improved the CO2 reactivity and CO selectivity significantly. In addition, nonadiabatic molecular dynamics simulations showed that the trap states of the O/melon and S/melon can rapidly capture excited electrons to participate in the CO2RR and improve the photocatalytic reaction efficiency. This work provided theoretical insight for the design of efficient CO2RR photocatalysts based on metal-free materials.
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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
ISSN: 1948-7185
Year: 2025
Issue: 20
Volume: 16
Page: 4869-4874
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