Photocatalytic hydrogen production from water splitting is of promising potential to resolve the energy shortage and environmental concerns. During the past decade, carbon materials have shown great ability to enhance the photocatalytic hydrogen-production performance of semiconductor photocatalysts. This review provides a comprehensive overview of carbon materials such as CNTs, graphene, C₆₀, carbon quantum dots, carbon fibers, activated carbon, carbon black, etc. in enhancing the performance of semiconductor photocatalysts for H₂ production from photocatalytic water splitting. The roles of carbon materials including supporting material, increasing adsorption and active sites, electron acceptor and transport channel, cocatalyst, photosensitization, photocatalyst, band gap narrowing effect are explicated in detail. Also, strategies for improving the photocatalytic hydrogen-production efficiency of carbon-based photocatalytic materials are discussed in terms of surface chemical functionalization of the carbon materials, doping effect of the carbon materials and interface engineering between semiconductors and carbon materials. Finally, the concluding remarks and the current challenges are highlighted with some perspectives for the future development of carbon-based photocatalytic materials.

水分解产生的光催化制氢潜力有望解决能源短缺和环境问题。在过去的十年中，碳材料显示出极大的能力来增强半导体光催化剂的光催化制氢性能。这篇综述全面综述了碳材料，例如碳纳米管，石墨烯，C ₆₀，碳量子点，碳纤维，活性炭，炭黑等，以增强用于H ₂的半导体光催化剂的性能。由光催化水分解生产。详细阐述了碳材料的作用，包括载体材料，增加的吸附和活性位，电子受体和传输通道，助催化剂，光敏性，光催化剂，带隙收窄效应。此外，从碳材料的表面化学功能化，碳材料的掺杂效果以及半导体和碳材料之间的界面工程方面讨论了提高碳基光催化材料的光催化产氢效率的策略。最后，以碳基光催化材料的未来发展的一些观点突出了总结性讲话和当前面临的挑战。