Supporting Information

2D Bismuthene Metal Electron Mediator Engineering Super

Interfacial Charge Transfer for Efficient Photocatalytic Reduction of

Carbon Dioxide
Dantong Zhang1, Xiaoqiang Cui1*, Lulu Liu1, Yanchao Xu1, Jingxiang Zhao2, Jianhui
Han3 and Weitao Zheng1*
1 State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control, School of Materials
Science and Engineering, and Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials of MOE, Jilin
University, Changchun, 130012, People’s Republic of China
2 Key Laboratory of Photonic and Electronic Bandgap Materials, Ministry of
Education, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Normal
University, Harbin 150025, People’s Republic of China
3 Institute of Atomic Molecular Physics, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012,
People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Prof. Xiaoqiang Cui; Prof. Weitao Zheng

E-mail: xqcui@jlu.edu.cn; wtzheng@jlu.edu.cn

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 Bismuthene

CN Nanosheet (CH2OH)2 BiOCl

in-situ
+ Bi 3+ hydrothermal

CTAC

H N C Bi Cl O
CN

Scheme S1. The preparation process of the CNBB heterojunction.

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 5 6
   
4 5  5 5

Electrostatic Potential (eV) 0 2

0 0 0
0
-5
-2
-5
-4 -5 -5
-10
-6 -10
-15 -10 -10
-8
-10 -15
-20 -15 -15
-12
-20
Z axis Direction

Figure S1 The work function of CN, BiOCl, CNB and CNBB.

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 500 nm
Cl

Bi N

Figure S2 High resolution EDS mapping images for various elements in CNBB.

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 (a) 0.6 Experimental
(b)
Experimental
Fitting 0.4
0.4 Fitting

())(a.u.)
0.2
k (k) (a.u.)

0.0
0.2
-0.2

FT(
2

-0.4
-0.6 0.0

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 0 2 4 6 8 10
-1
Wavenumber (Å ) Radial distance (Å)
(c) 0.6
(d)
Experimental Experimental
Fitting 0.4 Fitting
0.4

())(a.u.)
0.2
k (k) (a.u.)

0.0
0.2
-0.2
FT(
2

-0.4
-0.6 0.0

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 0 2 4 6 8 10
-1
Wavenumber (Å ) Radial distance (Å)

Figure S3 The L-weighted EXAFS fitting curves in k-space and their Fourier
transforms in the R domain of (a, b) BiOCl and (c,d) CNBB.

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 CH4 CO Light
catalyst time Reference
(mol·g-1) (mol·g-1) source
BiOCl/bismuthene/C3N4 61 71 1 White This work

Cl-/Bi2WO6 9.86 1.46 9 White 1

Cu/g-C3N4 0.2 3.086 1 White 2

NH2-MIL-101(Fe)/g-C3
 132.8 6 White 3
N4
C3N4/BiOCl-OV 4.85 28.5 6 White 4

BiOCl-OV 1.6 16.8 1 White 5

BiOCl nanoplate 1.2 0.8 8 White 6

Ag2CrO4/g-C3N4/graphe
0.8  3 Visible 7
ne
BiVO4/Carbon/Cu2O 0.5 3 1 Visible 8

Table S1 Summary of recent CO2RR perforamnce on various Bi-based and g-C3N4

related photocatalysts.

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 125 CO
CH4
100

Selectivity (%)
75

50

25

0
CN BiOCl CNB CNBB

Figure.S4 Selectivity of CO and CH4 for CN, BiOCl, CNB and CNBB.

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 250

Reduction of CO2 (mol g-1)

CO
200 CH4

150

100

50

0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Time (h)
Figure S5. Five recycle experiments of CNBB for CO and CH4 generation after 3 h
light irradiation.

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 0.5
0.42
0.4

AQE (%)
0.3
0.25

0.2

0.1 0.07 0.07

0.0
CN BiOCl CNB CNBB

Figure S6. AQE of CN, BiOCl, CNB and CNBB under 400 nm monochromatic light.

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