Characteristics of macrocrystalline metal sulfides as photocatalysts in an aqueous medium [44].
Abstract
Heterogeneous semiconductor photocatalysis has received much interest because of its applications in important global energy and environmental challenges in a cost-effective sustainable way. The photocatalytic efficiency of semiconductor photocatalysts under solar irradiation has been pointed out by difficulties associated with low visible-light absorption range, fast recombination of photogenerated carriers, and low chemical stability in operational conditions. Graphitic materials have attracted great interest due to properties, such as high surface area, mechanical strength, and photochemical stability. Thus, their combination with metal sulfides, has been explored as promising strategies to produce new photocatalysts. These nanocomposites show great potential in photodegradation of contaminants of emerging concern (CEC), which might be detected in water sources, such as traces of Pharmaceutics and pesticides. Here, we briefly review fundamental principles photocatalysis in general, with the focus on the use of carbon-nanomaterials of distinct structural dimensionalities associated with nanocrystalline metal sulfides, envisaging their application as heterogeneous photocatalysts for water remediation. Key aspects concerning the photocatalyst properties, such as light absorption, charge separation and transfer, and stability, are also approached. Graphene and graphene derivatives have demonstrated great potential for increasing photogenerated charge-carrier separation and migration efficiency, as well as in extending the light absorption range and adsorption capacity.
Keywords
- metal sulfide
- carbon nanomaterials
- photocatalysis
- water treatment
1. Introduction
Photocatalyst is a term that combines two words—
Two main optical processes have been proposed considering the role of the semiconductor during a photocatalytic reaction, as illustrated in Figure 1 for TiO2 photocatalysts. In direct photocatalysis, a photon with energy higher than the band gap energy of the semiconductor (h
On the other hand, in indirect photocatalysis, also known as photosensitized photocatalysis, the mechanism involves the photoexcitation (h
In semiconductor photocatalysis, several fundamental aspects should be considered to develop the photocatalyst based on functional and operational criteria. Hence, light absorption (absorption coefficient and wavelength range), photoinduced charge separation, charge trapping, and charge transfer are among the key parameters for designing efficient photocatalytic systems [33, 34]. For instance, photogenerated electrons are unstable species in an excited state, which tend naturally to return to the ground state either via adsorbed hydroxyl radicals or by recombination with unreacted holes or structural traps on semiconductors [35, 36, 37, 38]. Since these species are determinants in the efficiency of a photocatalyst, several research groups have explored strategies to increase the photoinduced charge separation to avoid charge recombination and consequently increase the lifetime of photogenerated electron/hole pairs. These strategies include (i) coupling of semiconductor photocatalysts with metal nanoparticles [39, 40, 41]; (ii) sensitization of the photocatalyst surface through physical or chemical adsorption of molecules that absorb visible light and are excited either to the singlet or triplet excited state [42] and; (iii) coupling of at least two semiconductor photocatalysts with different bandgap values [43, 44]. The presence of charge trapping sites in a semiconductor photocatalyst allows also the extension of the lifetime of the charge carriers from microseconds to milliseconds since in these sites there is greater charge-carrier stability. Although such trap sites are mostly located at the surface of a semiconductor photocatalyst, they may be present also on grain boundaries or in the bulk lattice, or even present as electron scavengers, such as O2. On the other hand, deeply stabilized trapped charges lose redox potential and increase the potential barrier for charge transfer at the semiconductor or water interface [45]. Thus, electron transfer reaction depends largely on structural parameters ascribed to the semiconductor photocatalyst, such as crystal facet structure, lattice surface, size, and morphology. Trapping mechanisms might be favorable if they allow photon activity to generate charge carriers, and permit charge carriers to reach the electron transfer regions. Otherwise, it could be disadvantageous for the overall photocatalytic process.
Several strategies have been proposed to adjust the physical and chemical properties of semiconductor photocatalysts to improve light absorption and charge transfer efficiency, reduce the recombination rate of photogenerated charge carriers, and accelerate surface reactions [46]. Examples of such strategies include metal-ion doping of the semiconductor [39, 40, 41], combination with distinct semiconductors that result in heterostructures [43, 44], and surface chemical functionalization using selected photosensitizers [42]. Noteworthy, the combination of inorganic semiconductors with carbonaceous materials, such as graphene and their structural derivatives, has also received great attention in the design of a new class of nanocomposite photocatalysts [47, 48]. The use of carbon nanostructures for supported semiconductor photocatalysts offers great advantages. Hence, depending on the carbon material, high electrically conductive nanostructures can act as scavengers of photogenerated electrons. Also, water-compatible nanomaterials promote the aqueous dispersion of the photocatalyst, which by achieving a high specific surface area enhances the adsorption capacity of the system [48]. Furthermore, surface functionalization of the carbon lattice confers functional chemical groups that might favor the subsequent attachment of semiconductor nanophases. A paradigmatic example of this situation is the application of graphene oxide as a nanoplatform for semiconductor photocatalysts, and notwithstanding limitations that can also arise such as photoreduction of the carbon substrate or the limited absorption by the photocatalyst [49, 50, 51].
2. Metal-sulfide photocatalysts
In general terms, a good photocatalyst should have the following characteristics: effective charge-carrier separation, fast charge transfer, strong optical absorption, photochemical stability, low-cost production, and nontoxicity [52]. Among the several types of photocatalysts available, inorganic semiconductors have been intensely investigated in water remediation processes because they might fulfill, at least in selected cases, the above requirements. Inorganic materials considered as semiconductors exhibit bandgap energies in the range of 0.3–3.8 eV. In particular, TiO2 and TiO2-based heterogeneous photocatalysts have been the most explored semiconductor materials for photocatalytic applications because of the high free energy of photogenerated charge carriers, low-cost, and high chemical stability [53, 54]. However, both TiO2 polymorphs (anatase/rutile) show a wide bandgap (anatase 3.2 eV; rutile 3.0 eV), which limits photocatalytic applications of pure TiO2 to UV irradiated systems. Other semiconductor photocatalysts exhibiting narrower bandgaps have been investigated, which can replace TiO2 in certain conditions or that might act as a complementary phase in extending light absorption to the visible composite systems. Among these semiconductors, this chapter focus on the use of binary metal-sulfide compounds, with emphasis on their nanocrystalline forms. Table 1 shows examples of metal sulfides investigated as photocatalysts and selected properties for the pure phases.
Metal sulfide | Bandgap energy (eV)* | Structure |
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ZnS | 3.6 | Cubic, Hexagonal |
CdS | 2.4 | Cubic; Hexagonal |
CuS | 2.4 | Hexagonal |
Ag2S | 1.0 | Monoclinic |
Bi2S3 | 1.4 | Orthorhombic |
A macrocrystalline metal sulfide (MS) semiconductor comprises a three-dimensional network of ordered atoms (metal and S atoms) characterized by a band gap energy at a certain temperature. As particle size decreases, and below a certain threshold, the electronic band structure of the semiconductor changes with the widening of the bandgap energy [55, 56]. For semiconductor nanoclusters, that is molecular-like nanocrystals depicted on the right in Figure 2, an analogous interpretation applies, although the energy gap is usually understood as the energy separation between the frontier molecular orbitals HOMO (highest occupied molecular orbital) and LUMO (lowest unoccupied molecular orbital). Thus, as in the case of conventional photosemiconductors, the incidence of a photon with energy greater than this energetic separation originates in semiconductor nanocrystals (and nanoclusters) the formation of an electron–hole pair, often called exciton, which in the macrocrystalline material is dimensionally characterized by the Bohr exciton radius of that semiconductor. The charge carriers in nanosized semiconductors migrate fast and participate in several photoprocesses, which include trapping and recombination [57, 58].
Metal sulfides can be explored in the macrocrystalline form as photocatalysts, for example, in aqueous suspensions, membranes, and thin films [59, 60, 61]. However, in the past decades, there has been intense research on their use as nanocrystalline materials, namely due to the possibility to explore quantum-size effects, as mentioned above. MS semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots) are small crystalline particles that exhibit quantum size-dependent optical and electronic properties [62, 63]. With typical dimensions in the range of 1–100 nm, these nanocrystals bridge the gap between those of molecules and micrometric crystals, displaying distinct optical behavior in relation to their bulk counterparts [64]. If the size of nanocrystals is smaller than the bulk exciton Bohr radius, the charge carriers become spatially confined, showing size-dependent absorption and fluorescence spectra with discrete electronic transitions at room temperature (Figure 2).
For instance, the optical spectra of colloids of nanocrystalline semiconductors show blue shifts in their absorption edges (or excitonic peaks) with decreasing particle diameters. Metal-sulfide nanocrystals that exhibit quantum size effects, that is, quantum dots, can be used as size-tuned light-absorption photosensitizers, namely in visible photocatalytic applications [44, 65, 66, 67]. Quantum size effects occurring in MS nanocrystals dispersed in aqueous suspensions, also affect the CB and VB redox levels, thus influencing redox reactions that involve the migration of photogenerated charge carriers to the particles’ surfaces. Nanosized semiconductors have dimensions considerably superior to conventional molecular photosensitizers, which in comparison to the latter, present a broader absorption wavelength range, large density of states, and high optical extinction coefficients [62], hence favoring photon harvesting in photocatalytic applications.
Colloidal synthesis offers a wide range of chemical methods to obtain MS nanocrystals with controlled particle size distributions and particle shapes, thus with tailored bandgaps for diverse semiconductors and their solid solutions [68, 69, 70, 71]. Furthermore, such colloids can be selected as nanodispersed systems showing strong visible-light absorption and size-tuned bandgap. However, these systems also show limitations, which deserve further research aiming their application as more efficient photocatalysts. Although certain MS is used as visible-light photocatalysts, the photogenerated electron–hole pairs are also susceptible to recombination. The occurrence of charge-carrier recombination limits their mobility from the bulk lattice to the particles’ surface, thus decreasing the efficiency of the photocatalyst. Moreover, surface-sulfide anions (S2−) in aqueous MS colloids are prone to oxidation, a process that gains more relevance due to the oxidative role of photogenerated holes at the surface [72, 73]. In fact, under light irradiation, sulfide anions can oxidize forming sulfate (SO42−) or elemental sulfur (S0), causing the deactivation of the photocatalyst.
The inhibition of metal-sulfide photocorrosion is an important requirement for photocatalytic reactions, namely because the long lifetime of photogenerated electron–hole pairs and the chemical stability are essential for producing efficient photocatalysts. Several strategies have been reported that tackle this problem, such as modifying the crystal structure, size, and morphology of semiconductors [74, 75], combining with transition metal ions or cocatalysts [76, 77], producing heterojunctions, [78, 79, 80] and by adjusting the reaction parameters [81, 82, 83]. For instance, Bo
3. Carbon-based nanostructures
The development of heterogeneous photocatalysts by combining metal sulfides and different carbon nanomaterials has been explored as an effective strategy to obtain high-performance photocatalysts. Owing to delocalized electrons from the conjugative π-system, graphitic carbon nanostructures are good at accepting and shuttling the photogenerated electrons from semiconductor photocatalysts; hence, effectively separating the electron–hole pairs [89, 90, 91, 92, 93]. For instance, Wan
Graphene is a 2D material formed by a one-atom-thick planar layer of sp2-hybridized carbon atoms that resemble a chicken-wire-shaped lattice, presenting outstanding electronic, thermal, and mechanical properties [95]. Graphene is the basic structural material of graphite, which result from the overstacking of graphene monolayers
The mechanical exfoliation of graphite creates free-standing graphene sheets, as shown by Novoselov and Geim, who used sequential micromechanical cleavage of graphite using the “scotch-tape method.” The authors were honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004, 6 years later to such an important finding [98, 99]. The direct exfoliation of bulk graphite produces layers of graphene with good quality and crystallinity, low defect densities, and high conductivity, but frequently, at a low yield [100]. As such, graphene layers can be obtained by the chemical exfoliation of a low-cost raw material bulk graphite, which applied together with selected chemicals produce graphene and graphene derivatives, such as GO and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) [100, 101, 102]. Although water is a first-choice medium for the production of graphene-based materials, the hydrophobic nature of pristine graphene sheets tends to promote their restacking, which makes exfoliation challenging. The use of surfactants during the exfoliation processes has been considered to overcome this limitation because they allow exfoliated layers to remain suspended and avoid overstacking [101, 103]. The success of the exfoliation processes is overcoming the van der Walls forces by increasing the distance between the layers
GO is composed of sp2 graphene layers with a high content of oxygen-containing functional groups, such as hydroxyl, epoxy, carboxylic, and carbonyl groups [107]. The UV–visible absorption spectra of GO suspensions show an absorption peak ascribed to π-π* electronic transitions of aromatic C-C bonds and n-π* transitions of the oxygen-containing groups, at around 230 nm and 315 nm, respectively [108]. The aqueous suspensions of GO are normally stable due to the hydrophilic character of oxygen-containing groups present in the sheets’ surfaces, namely at the edges. Colloidal stability is favored by the electrostatic repulsion that arises due to anionic groups that form due to extensive proton dissociation in such functional groups, over a certain pH range. On the other hand, the presence of out-of-planar C-O covalent bonds increases the interlayer distance from 0.34 to 0.65 nm, therefore decreasing the energy needed to separate the graphene layers [96, 98, 107]. The hydrophilic nature of oxidized graphite facilitates water to be adsorbed into its lamellar structure, showing a further increase in the interlayer distance to 1.15 nm [109]. For instance, the use of polar solvents (e.g., ethanol, acetonitrile, and dimethyl sulfoxide) allows the preparation of stable colloids but either flocculation or aggregation occur when nonpolar organic solvents are used as the dispersing medium [107].
Carbon nanotubes (CNT) are 1D materials formed by graphene sheets rolled around a common axis, with diameters reaching between 0.5 and 100 nm, and lengths extending several micrometers or even millimeters [110]. CNT can be single- (SWCNT) or multi-walled (MWCNT) according to the number of graphene sheets rolled-up, that is, a single sheet or more than one, respectively. SWCNTs have diameters in the range of 1–2 nm and MWCNT show typical diameters in the range of 10–100 nm range [111]. Pristine CNT has hydrophobic nature, and their high aspect ratio favors interparticle van de Waals forces mediated by the outer walls, which results in a tendency for CNT aggregation [112]. Thus, non-functionalized CNT dispersed in a liquid medium exists as large bundles, which limit handling and, consequently, their use in many applications. Usually, mechanical disentanglement of CNT bundles is achieved by ultrasonication of the respective dispersions in which shear forces promote the separation of CNT but can also cut such nanostructures. Nevertheless, the debundling process depends on the modification of the CNT surface by using chemical agents that enhance the compatibility of the CNT with the dispersing medium. Hence, surface modifiers, such as surfactants, homopolymers, and block copolymers, have been used to promote the dispersion of CNT in aqueous environments. In addition, surface oxidation treatments that result in the presence of carboxylic, hydroxyl, and carbonyl functional groups at the end of the tubes and on their sidewalls, also allow better dispersions of CNT in water [113].
Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) has been used to check the crystalline structure of graphitic materials. Bulk graphite shows a strong Bragg diffraction peak at 26.6° corresponding to the reflection of (002) planes and associated with an interlayer distance of 0.34 nm. The oxidation and exfoliation of graphite increase the interlayer distance changing the peak position of the basal (002) reflection from 26.6 to 11.2°, which corresponds to an interplanar distance of 0.79 nm, as observed for GO materials [98].
Raman spectroscopy has been a key instrumental technique to study graphene materials, such as the surface chemistry of GO and the existence of structural defects. The Raman spectra of graphitic materials are typically characterized by three distinct vibrational bands: the G-, D-, and 2D-bands. The G-band is observed around 1580 cm−1 and is ascribed to the in-plane bending mode of the sp2 hybridized carbon atoms in graphene. In high-quality graphene, this band is very sharp, suggesting its high crystallinity and non-defect structure. The D-band at around 1350 cm−1 has been associated with the amount and type of defects in the carbon lattice, for example, the existence of sp3 hybridization or due to vacancies [114]. The extension of such defects in the carbon sheet, either at the edges or topological defects, have been monitored by Raman measurements using such diagnosis band, namely by computing the intensity ratio between the G- and D-bands [98, 104, 114]. In the Raman spectrum of high-quality pristine graphene, the D-band is not observed or is very weak, but it is observed in GO samples due to the presence of different oxygen functional groups in the carbon sheets. Hence, the D-to-G Raman band intensity ratio provides useful information on the nature and extension of structural defects that characterize the GO samples [94]. The 2D band is an overtone of the D-band, resulting from a two-photon lattice vibrational process. For true single-layer graphene, such a band occurs as a symmetric feature below 2700 cm−1 [104, 114]. Overstacking of successive layers results in structures of less symmetry with a Raman shift to higher wavenumbers [98]. For example, in graphite and graphite oxide materials, it is observed a broad band at about 2800 cm−1. The features of the G and 2D bands are particularly useful in exfoliation and surface modification laboratorial tasks because are the first indication for distinguishing between monolayer (or few-layer) graphene and graphite-based materials. Furthermore, it has been shown that Raman methods applied to GO modified with metal sulfides are an alternative strategy to probe the surface of nanocomposite photocatalysts [115].
4. Application of carbon-based semiconductor nanostructures in photocatalysis
Metal sulfides, such as the binary compounds CdS, Ag2S, Bi2S3, and CuS, have been referenced in photocatalysis literature as efficient photon harvesters of visible-light radiation [116]. When supported on graphitic materials, these semiconductors improve the conductivity for electron capture and transport [51, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123]. There are several methods of synthesis of metal sulfides coupled to rGO and GO substrates, which comprise solid-state, sonochemical, microwave irradiation, solvothermal, and hydrothermal methods [113, 120, 121, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138]. Our research group has developed a single-source method to prepare GO-based composites having supported metal sulfides. The type of metal sulfide generated
Although CdS presents serious drawbacks for practical applications due to its well-known toxicity, research on CdS-based nanomaterials provide helpful insights concerning the visible-light response and underlying mechanisms in semiconductor photocatalysis [139]. There are a number of studies reporting visible-light active heterostructures of CdS/rGO and CdS/GO, which were investigated as photocatalysts for the degradation of organic dyes [124, 126, 128]. These heterostructures showed higher photocatalytic efficiency than bare CdS and could be used for up to four cycles, without loss of activity. For instance, Zhang
The semiconductor Bi2S3 absorbs in the visible and NIR spectral range and does not pose serious toxicity concerns associated with CdS. Wang and coworkers showed that Bi2S3 immobilized on carbon dots have higher photocatalytic efficiency than their individual components, by investigating the degradation of MB and tetracycline under UV-, visible-, and NIR-light irradiation [144]. Khalid
Copper sulfide is a
Although ZnS is a non-absorbing material in the visible range due to its wide band gap energy (3.66 eV for blende structure and 3.77 eV for wurtzite structure), it has been found that ZnS coupled to carbon nanomaterials result in hybrid heterostructures with photocatalytic activity under visible-light irradiation [127, 133, 135]. Hence, Ming
5. Conclusions
This chapter provided a concise overview on the use of graphene and graphene derivatives coupled to nanocrystalline semiconductors of metal sulfides in heterogeneous photocatalysis. For these applications, pure metal-sulfide nanoparticles show some limitations, which depending on the semiconductor include limited harvesting of photons in the visible region, low photocatalytic quantum yield, fast recombination of photogenerated charge carriers, and photocorrosion. Hence, several chemical strategies have been reported to improve photoefficiency and performance of these nanoparticles as photocatalysts. Metal-sulfide phases coupled with graphitic materials have been employed to prevent the photocorrosion of the chalcogenide semiconductor and to increase the photocatalytic efficiency of the resultant hybrid nanostructures. Particularly, graphene (and its derivatives) have shown great merits in improving the photogenerated charge-carriers separation and migration, also extending the light absorption range and the adsorption capacity of the photocatalysts. Furthermore, their use as supporting substrates in aqueous suspensions also inhibits the agglomeration of the particles, thus keeping exposed a high surface area to the photoactive semiconductors. The design of graphene-based materials decorated with metal sulfides as photocatalysts requires the assessment of the several parameters that might contribute to their performance in specific contexts. Hence, it has been reported that these hybrid nanostructures show optimal compositional features on the carbon nanomaterial and semiconductor, depending on the target pollutant and operational conditions. Furthermore, the surface functionalization of graphene materials also plays an important role in the development of such photocatalysts, namely the content load in the metal sulfide and their defect structure. Finally, the cost-effective production of graphene-based semiconductor nanocomposites at a large scale, envisaging their application as photostable and efficient heterogeneous photocatalysts, is still a great challenge. In the chemical design of such photocatalysts, eco-friendly up-scale strategies should be also addressed by researchers, to guarantee its future commercialization for environmental applications.
Acknowledgments
A.C. Estrada acknowledges the research position funded by national funds (OE), through FCT-Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., in the scope of the framework contract foreseen in the numbers 4, 5, and 6 of the article 23, of the Decree-Law 57/2016, of August 29, changed by Law 57/2017, of July 19. J. L. Lopes thanks FCT for the doctoral grant SFRH/BD/126241/2016. This work was developed within the scope of the project CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials, UIDB/50011/2020, UIDP/50011/2020 & LA/P/0006/2020, financed by national funds through the FCT/MEC (PIDDAC).
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