Catalysis of hydrogen evolution reaction using ruthenium ion complexed carbon nitride materials
View Patent ↗A method can include incorporating graphene oxide (GO) in a solution, reducing the graphene oxide (GO) by refluxing carbon nitride (C 3 N 4 ) in the solution to form carbon-nitride refluxed-graphene-oxide (C 3 N 4 -rGO) composites, and incorporating ruthenium ions into the C 3 N 4 -rGO composites to form C 3 N 4 -rGO-Ru complexes.
1. A method, comprising:
incorporating graphene oxide (GO) in a solution;
reducing the graphene oxide (GO) by refluxing carbon nitride (C 3 N 4 ) in the solution to form carbon-nitride refluxed-graphene-oxide (C 3 N 4 -rGO) composites; and
incorporating ruthenium ions into the C 3 N 4 -rGO composites to form C 3 N 4 -rGO-Ru complexes.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising using the C 3 N 4 -rGO-Ru complexes as a catalyst in a hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) process.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising assembling C 3 N 4 sheets onto the refluxed GO to form a sandwich structure.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the reducing includes using ascorbic acid in the solution.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the incorporating includes refluxing ruthenium chloride (RuCl 3 ) in the solution.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising confirming the formed C 3 N 4 -rGO composites by atomic force microscope (AFM) measurements.
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising performing x-ray photoelectron spectroscopic (XPS) measurements on the C 3 N 4 -rGO-Ru complexes.
8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising performing transmission electron microscopy (TEM) on the C 3 N 4 -rGO-Ru complexes.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the solution is an aqueous solution.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the aqueous solution is water.