Regulating Lewis Acidic Sites of 1T-2H MoS<sub>2</sub> Catalysts for Solar-Driven Photothermal Catalytic H<sub>2</sub> Production from Lignocellulosic Biomass.

Ma, Chi; Cheng, Miao; Liu, Qing-Yu; Yuan, Yong-Jun; Zhang, Fu-Guang; Li, Naixu; Guan, Jie; Shen, Zhi-Kai et al. · Nano Lett · 2024

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Solar-driven photothermal catalytic H<sub>2</sub> production from lignocellulosic biomass was achieved by using 1T-2H MoS<sub>2</sub> with tunable Lewis acidic sites as catalysts in an alkaline aqueous solution, in which the number of Lewis acidic sites derived from the exposed Mo edges of MoS<sub>2</sub> was successfully regulated by both the formation of an edge-terminated 1T-2H phase structure and tunable layer number. Owing to the abundant Lewis acidic sites for the oxygenolysis of lignocellulosic biomass, the 1T-2H MoS<sub>2</sub> catalyst shows high photothermal catalytic lignocellulosic biomass-to-H<sub>2</sub> transformation performance in polar wood chips, bamboo, rice straw corncobs, and rice hull aqueous solutions, and the highest H<sub>2</sub> generation rate and solar-to-H<sub>2</sub> (STH) efficiency respectively achieves 3661 μmol·h<sup>-1</sup>·g<sup>-1</sup> and 0.18% in the polar wood chip system under 300 W Xe lamp illumination. This study provides a sustainable and cost-effective method for the direct transformation of renewable lignocellulosic biomass to H<sub>2</sub> fuel driven by solar energy.