Challenge remains to develop a high activity of photocatalyst for large-scale industrial application in photocatalytic selective conversion of biomass alcohols into the value-added chemicals accompany with H₂ evolution in aqueous solution. Herein, ReS₂ as high efficiency co-catalyst is utilized to modify the flower-like ZnIn₂S₄ (ZIS) microspheres to obtain heterojunction composite, result in dramatically enhancements in photocatalytic oxidation of furfural alcohols cooperative with H₂ evolution. Further studies show that the optimal catalyst containing 4.08 wt% ReS₂ (RZIS-3) realize remarkably generation rates of H₂ and furfural at 3092.9 and 2981.1 μmol g⁻¹ h⁻¹, respectively, nearly 12 times faster than that of blank ZnIn₂S₄. Mechanism studies verify that the migration of the photogenerated carriers from ZnIn₂S₄ to ReS₂ leading to the remarkably photoactivity of the composite. Moreover, the typical photocatalysis not rely on a single model substrate, and high performance of the composite has been identified for the oxidation of other alcohols biomass intermediate to value-added aldehydes/ketones, providing a new insight for design and fabrication of the novel photocatalytic hydrogen evolution systems.

挑战仍然是开发用于大规模工业应用的高活性光催化剂，将生物质醇光催化选择性转化为增值化学品，同时在水溶液中放出H _{2 。}在此，ReS ₂作为高效助催化剂用于修饰花状ZnIn ₂ S ₄ (ZIS) 微球以获得异质结复合材料，从而显着增强糠醛醇的光催化氧化和H ₂释放。进一步的研究表明，含有 4.08 wt% ReS ₂ (RZIS-3) 的最佳催化剂在 3092.9 和 2981.1 μmol g 时实现了显着的 H ₂和糠醛生成率^-1  h ^-1，分别比空白ZnIn ₂ S ₄快近12倍。机理研究证实，光生载流子从 ZnIn ₂ S ₄迁移到 ReS ₂导致复合材料具有显着的光活性。此外，典型的光催化不依赖于单一模型底物，并且已经确定复合材料的高性能用于将其他醇类生物质中间体氧化为增值的醛/酮，为新型光催化的设计和制造提供了新的见解析氢系统。