Mesoporous Carbon Nitride‐Tungsten Oxide Composites for Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

Abstract

Abstract Composites of mesoporous polymeric carbon nitride and tungsten(VI) oxide show very high photocatalytic activity for the evolution of hydrogen from water under visible light and in the presence of sacrificial electron donors. Already addition of very small amounts of WO 3 yields up to a twofold increase in the efficiency when compared to bulk carbon nitrides and their composites and more notably even to the best reported mesoporous carbon nitride‐based photocatalytic materials. The higher activity can be attributed to the high surface area and synergetic effect of the carbon nitrides and the WO 3 resulting in improved charge separation through a photocatalytic solid‐state Z‐scheme mechanism.