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Abstract
Single-site cocatalysts engineered on supports offer a cost-efficient pathway to utilize precious metals, yet improving the performance further with minimal catalyst loading is still highly desirable. Here we have conducted a photochemical reaction to stabilize ultralow Pt co-catalysts (0.26 wt%) onto the basal plane of hexagonal ZnIn
2
S
4
nanosheets (Pt
SS
-ZIS) to form a Pt-S
3
protrusion tetrahedron coordination structure. Compared with the traditional defect-trapped Pt single-site counterparts, the protruding Pt single-sites on
h
-ZIS photocatalyst enhance the H
2
evolution yield rate by a factor of 2.2, which could reach 17.5 mmol g
−1
h
−1
under visible light irradiation. Importantly, through simple drop-casting, a thin Pt
SS
-ZIS film is prepared, and large amount of observable H
2
bubbles are generated, providing great potential for practical solar-light-driven H
2
production. The protruding single Pt atoms in Pt
SS
-ZIS could inhibit the recombination of electron-hole pairs and cause a tip effect to optimize the adsorption/desorption behavior of H through effective proton mass transfer, which synergistically promote reaction thermodynamics and kinetics.