Chinese Journal of Catalysis ›› 2023, Vol. 44: 67-95.DOI: 10.1016/S1872-2067(22)64152-4

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Indium-based ternary metal sulfide for photocatalytic CO2 reduction application

Jinman Yanga, Zhengrui Yanga, Kefen Yanga, Qing Yua, Xingwang Zhub, Hui Xua,*(), Huaming Lia,*()   

  1. aInstitute of Energy Research, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, Jiangsu, China
    bCollege of Environmental Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, Jiangsu, China
  • Received:2022-04-08 Accepted:2022-07-15 Online:2023-01-18 Published:2022-12-08
  • Contact: Hui Xu, Huaming Li
  • About author:Hui Xu is a professor at the Institute for Energy Research at Jiangsu University. He received a Ph.D. degree from Jiangsu University, China in 2010. He was selected for the National Youth Talent Project. His research interests are in the development of nanomaterials and their composites for hydrogen evolution and energy conversion. His research work is mainly focused on photocatalytic and electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reactions (HER) and CO2 reduction using various nanostructures. Currently, he serves as a member of the Energy and Environment Committee of the Chinese Energy Society. More than 200 research papers have been published in international journals including ACS Nano, Adv. Energy Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., etc., with more than 19000 citations (H-Index = 74). In 2019, he was awarded the Jiangsu Outstanding Youth Fund, and he was selected as a Clarivate Analytics Global Highly Cited Scientist from 2019 to 2021. In 2021, he was selected as an Elsevier Highly Cited Scholar. In 2020, he won the Hou Debang Chemical Science and Technology Youth Award. In 2021, he won the second prize in the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation Science and Technology Progress Award.
    Li Huaming (Jiangsu University), received his M.S. degree from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1992. He is currently a member of the Ionic Liquid Professional Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society, a member of the Photocatalysis Professional Committee of the Chinese Photosensitivity Society, and a member of the Particle Preparation and Processing Professional Committee of the Chinese Society for Particles. Currently, he is undertaking 4 projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province. He presided over and completed 15 projects for the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Natural Science Foundation of the Provincial Department. As the corresponding author, he has published more than 200 SCI-indexed papers in influential journals such as Advanced Mater., Mater. Today, Adv. Funct. Mater., Nano Energy, and Adv. Sci. In 2018, he was selected for the Clarivate Analytics Global Highly Cited Scientist Interdisciplinary Field List. From 2014 to 2018, he was selected as a highly cited scholar in chemical engineering in China by Elsevier for five consecutive years. He was the editor-in-chief of 5 books and authorized more than 40 national invention patents.
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(22075113);National Natural Science Foundation of China(22178152);National Natural Science Foundation of China(22172066);National Natural Science Foundation of China(51902138);Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20190835);High-tech Research Key Laboratory of Zhenjiang(SS2018002);Jiangsu Provincial Agricultural Science and Technology Independent Innovation Fund(CX(21)3067)

Abstract:

Photocatalytic CO2 reduction technology appears one of the most prospective paths because it directly utilizes green and renewable solar energy to efficiently convert CO2 into hydrocarbon fuels and useful chemical products, which will dissipate global warming and mitigate universal problems of energy shortage simultaneously. Metal sulfide based on appropriate band structures and excellent photoresponsivity range has recently attracted attention in the basic research of CO2 photoconversion in laboratory. In particular, In-based ternary metal sulfide present great potential in dealing with photo corrosion and carrier recombination problems. This review detailedly introduced the main structural characteristics and common synthesis methods of In-based ternary metal sulfide. Additionally, a series of modification methods of In-based ternary metal sulfide and recent developments of activity enhancing techniques in photocatalytic CO2 conversion were summarized and analyzed as the central content. Subsequently, we systematically demonstrated and discussed the mechanism of activity enhancement. Finally, we highlighted the current limitations, challenges and development needs and directions of In-based ternary metal sulfide for photocatalytic CO2 conversion.

Key words: Indium, Ternary metal sulfide, Modification, Photocatalysis, CO2 reduction