@article{Gao2022, 
author = {Hao Gao and Liming Sun and Mengge Li and Wenwen Zhan and Xiaojun Wang and Xiguang Han},
title = {Fabricating a hollow cuboctahedral structure for N-doped carbon coated p-n heterojunctions towards high-performance photocatalytic organic transformation},
year = {2022},
journal = {Nano Research},
volume = {15},
number = {5},
pages = {4638-4645},
keywords = {p-n heterojunction, N-doped carbon, semiconductor, hollow structure, organic transformation},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.1007/s12274-021-4016-5},
doi = {10.1007/s12274-021-4016-5},
abstract = {The application of semiconductors-based photocatalysts in organic transformation has been limited by the low light utilization efficiency and the rapid recombination of photo-induced charge carriers. In this paper, we have successfully fabricated a hollow cuboctahedral nanostructure (CNNCH), which is composed of N-doped carbon layer and CuO/NiO p-n heterojunctions. The hollow structure in CNNCH can effectively favor the light utilization through the multiple light reflection and scattering. The separation of photo-induced charge carriers can be highly improved by the exitence of charge transfer pathways between the p-n heterojunctions and semiconductor/N-doped carbon layer interfaces. Due to the above advantages, hollow cuboctahedral CNNCH as the photocatalyst has behaved high performance towards the photocatalytic cross-dehydrogenative coupling reaction.}
}