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Yang Q, Hu S, Yao Y, Lin X, Du H, Yuan Y. Engineering graphitic carbon nitride with expanded interlayer distance for boosting photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/s1872-2067(20)63611-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Xing Y, Yin L, Zhao Y, Du Z, Tan HQ, Qin X, Ho W, Qiu T, Li YG. Construction of the 1D Covalent Organic Framework/2D g-C 3N 4 Heterojunction with High Apparent Quantum Efficiency at 500 nm. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:51555-51562. [PMID: 33156604 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c15780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The reasonable construction of heterojunction photocatalysts with clear nanostructures and a good interface contact especially the one-dimensional/two-dimensional (1D/2D) composite heterojunction with unique morphology is considered one of the most effective strategies for designing highly efficient photocatalysts. Herein, a series of the 1D β-keto-enamine-based covalent organic framework (COF)/2D g-C3N4 composite materials COF-CN (1:x; where 1:x represents the mass ratio of COF and g-C3N4, x = 2.5, 5, 10, 15, 20) is prepared through the in situ reaction of 2,4,6-triformylphloroglucinol (Tp) and benzidine (BD) in stripped g-C3N4 suspension. A series of characterizations, such as X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), have verified their 1D/2D heterojunction structure. With the introduction of 1D COF nanobelts, the absorption of the composite is largely extended to 560 nm. Photocatalytic experiments reveal that the composite COF/CN shows evidently superior photocatalytic performance than individual COF and g-C3N4. The optimized COF-CN (1:10) exhibits a H2 production rate of 12.8 mmol g-1·h-1 under visible-light (λ ≥ 420 nm) irradiation, which is about 62 and 284 times higher than those of COF and g-C3N4, respectively. The apparent quantum efficiency (AQE) of COF-CN (1:10) is about 15.09% under 500 nm light irradiation, which is one of the highest among previous COF- or g-C3N4-based materials. This work provides important strategies for designing and constructing high-efficiency heterojunction photocatalysts with multidimensional features.
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- Yanmei Xing
- Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate Science of the Ministry of Education, Faculty of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate Science of the Ministry of Education, Faculty of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate Science of the Ministry of Education, Faculty of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate Science of the Ministry of Education, Faculty of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate Science of the Ministry of Education, Faculty of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, P. R. China
- Department of Science and Environmental Studies and State Key Laboratory in Marine Pollution, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, N.T., Hong Kong 999077, P. R. China
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- Department of Science and Environmental Studies and State Key Laboratory in Marine Pollution, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, N.T., Hong Kong 999077, P. R. China
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- Department of Science and Environmental Studies and State Key Laboratory in Marine Pollution, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, N.T., Hong Kong 999077, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate Science of the Ministry of Education, Faculty of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate Science of the Ministry of Education, Faculty of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, P. R. China
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Cost-Effective Electrochemical Activation of Graphitic Carbon Nitride on the Glassy Carbon Electrode Surface for Selective Determination of Serotonin. SENSORS 2020; 20:s20216083. [PMID: 33114675 PMCID: PMC7662638 DOI: 10.3390/s20216083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2020] [Revised: 10/17/2020] [Accepted: 10/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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A simple one-step electrochemical deposition/activation of graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) is highly desired for sensor configurations and remains a great challenge. Herein, we attempt an electrochemical route to exfoliate the g-C3N4 nanosheets in an aqueous solution of pH 7.0 for constructing a sensor, which is highly sensitive for the detection of serotonin (5-HT). The significance of our design is to exfoliate the g-C3N4 nanosheets, a strong electrocatalyst for 5-HT detection. Investigations regarding the effect of neutral pH (pH 7.0) on the bulk g-C3N4 and g-C3N4 nanosheets, physical characterization, and electrochemical studies were extensively carried out. We demonstrate that the g-C3N4 nanosheets have a significant electrocatalytic effect for the 5-HT detection in a dynamic linear range from 500 pM to 1000 nM (R2 = 0.999). The limit of detection and sensitivity of the designed 5-HT sensor was calculated to be 150 pM and 1.03 µA µM−1 cm−2, respectively. The proposed sensor has great advantages such as high sensitivity, good selectivity, reproducibility, and stability. The constructed g-C3N4 nanosheets-based sensor platform opens new feasibilities for the determination of 5-HT even at the picomolar/nanomolar concentration range.
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Das B, Devi M, Hassan Barbhuiya M, Sankar Dhar S. Sodium and Sulfur Co‐Doped Graphitic Carbon Nitride: A Novel and Effective Visible Light Driven Photocatalyst with Tunable Bandgap for Degradation of Eosin Yellow. ChemistrySelect 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.202003276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Bishal Das
- Department of Chemistry National Institute of Technology, Silchar Silchar 788010 Assam India
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- Department of Chemistry National Institute of Technology, Silchar Silchar 788010 Assam India
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- Department of Chemistry National Institute of Technology, Silchar Silchar 788010 Assam India
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- Department of Chemistry National Institute of Technology, Silchar Silchar 788010 Assam India
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Yin T, Long L, Tang X, Qiu M, Liang W, Cao R, Zhang Q, Wang D, Zhang H. Advancing Applications of Black Phosphorus and BP-Analog Materials in Photo/Electrocatalysis through Structure Engineering and Surface Modulation. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2020; 7:2001431. [PMID: 33042754 PMCID: PMC7539224 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202001431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2020] [Revised: 05/24/2020] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Black phosphorus (BP), an emerging 2D material semiconductor material, exhibits unique properties and promising application prospects for photo/electrocatalysis. However, the applications of BP in photo/electrocatalysis are hampered by the instability as well as low catalysis efficiency. Recently, tremendous efforts have been dedicated toward modulating its intrinsic structure, electronic property, and charge separation for enhanced photo/electrocatalytic performance through structure engineering. Simultaneously, the search for new substitute materials that are BP-analogous is ongoing. Herein, the latest theoretical and experimental progress made in the structural/surface engineering strategies and advanced applications of BP and BP-analog materials in relation to photo/electrocatalysis are extensively explored, and a presentation of the future opportunities and challenges of the materials is included at the end.
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- Teng Yin
- School of Electronics and InformationHangzhou Dianzi UniversityHangzhou310018China
- Institute of Microscale OptoelectronicsCollaborative Innovation Centre for Optoelectronic Science & TechnologyKey Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong ProvinceCollege of Physics and Optoelectronic EngineeringShenzhen Key Laboratory of Micro‐Nano Photonic Information TechnologyGuangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ)Shenzhen UniversityShenzhen518060China
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- School of Electronics and InformationHangzhou Dianzi UniversityHangzhou310018China
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- School of Physics and Optoelectronic EngineeringFoshan UniversityFoshan528000China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology (Ocean University of China)Ministry of EducationQingdao266100P. R. China
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- Institute of Microscale OptoelectronicsCollaborative Innovation Centre for Optoelectronic Science & TechnologyKey Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong ProvinceCollege of Physics and Optoelectronic EngineeringShenzhen Key Laboratory of Micro‐Nano Photonic Information TechnologyGuangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ)Shenzhen UniversityShenzhen518060China
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- Institute of Microscale OptoelectronicsCollaborative Innovation Centre for Optoelectronic Science & TechnologyKey Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong ProvinceCollege of Physics and Optoelectronic EngineeringShenzhen Key Laboratory of Micro‐Nano Photonic Information TechnologyGuangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ)Shenzhen UniversityShenzhen518060China
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- Advanced Institute of Information TechnologyPeking UniversityHangzhou311215China
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- School of Electronics and InformationHangzhou Dianzi UniversityHangzhou310018China
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- Institute of Microscale OptoelectronicsCollaborative Innovation Centre for Optoelectronic Science & TechnologyKey Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong ProvinceCollege of Physics and Optoelectronic EngineeringShenzhen Key Laboratory of Micro‐Nano Photonic Information TechnologyGuangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ)Shenzhen UniversityShenzhen518060China
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Zhao S, Dou Z, Liu Y, Lv Z, Cheng Y, Wang Y, Jiang M, Zhuo S. Ionic liquid‐assisted synthesis of defect‐rich BiOI with controllable structure and high surface area for excellent visible‐light photocatalytic activity. Appl Organomet Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/aoc.5816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Shuo Zhao
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Shandong University of Technology Zibo 255049 China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Shandong University of Technology Zibo 255049 China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Shandong University of Technology Zibo 255049 China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Shandong University of Technology Zibo 255049 China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Shandong University of Technology Zibo 255049 China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Southeast University, Jiangsu Optoelectronic Functional Materials and Engineering Laboratory Nanjing 211189 China
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- Resources and Environmental Engineering Shandong University of Technology Zibo 255049 China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Shandong University of Technology Zibo 255049 China
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Tong Y, Wei C, Li Y, Zhang Y, Lin W. Unraveling the mechanisms of S-doped carbon nitride for photocatalytic oxygen reduction to H 2O 2. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:21099-21107. [PMID: 32946539 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp03533e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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An in-depth understanding of the microscopic reaction mechanism on a nonmetal-doped catalytic system at the atomic level is one of the critical approaches to developing new efficient catalysts. Herein, the effects of S-doping on melon-based carbon nitride (CN) for the photocatalytic selective oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) have been comprehensively investigated by first-principles calculations. The configurations, electronic properties, optical properties, and the reaction performance of the S-doped melon-based CN have been studied and discussed. The results demonstrate that the decoration with S atoms exhibited substantial effects, involving the redistribution of the charge density and tuning of the bandgap, which promote the photocatalytic selective ORR activity. Accordingly, O2 is activated on the S-doped system with about 0.4 e of charge obtained from catalytic surfaces, leading to the thermodynamically feasible H2O2 and H2O formation, which is in good agreement with the experimental results. Our results provide theoretical insights into the design and development of polymeric carbon nitride (PCN) as well as other metal-free photocatalysts for the selective ORR.
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- Yawen Tong
- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, P. R. China.
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Alwin E, Nowicki W, Wojcieszak R, Zieliński M, Pietrowski M. Elucidating the structure of the graphitic carbon nitride nanomaterials via X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and X-ray powder diffraction techniques. Dalton Trans 2020; 49:12805-12813. [PMID: 32959849 DOI: 10.1039/d0dt02325f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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By using the most popular method of thermal condensation of dicyandiamide in a semi-closed system, graphitic carbon nitrides (gCNs) were synthesized at 500, 550, and 600 °C. The resulting materials were comprehensively analyzed via X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and X-ray powder diffraction (XRD)techniques. We show that the use of routine analytical methods provides an insight into the structure of the carbon nitride materials. The analysis of geometric linear structures and fully condensed structure of polymeric carbon nitrides was performed and the ranges within which the contents of different nitrogen species (pyridine, amine, imine and quaternary nitrogen) can change were determined. This analysis, in combination with quantitative XPS studies, permits to state that the carbon nitride structure prepared by the thermal condensation of dicyandiamide is closer to the structure in which poly(aminoimino)heptazine subunits are linked into chains rather than the structure involving fully-condensed polyheptazine network. The XRD analysis proved that the 3D crystal structure of carbon nitride is described more correctly by the orthorhombic cell and space group P21212 applied to condensed chains of poly(aminoimino)heptazine (melon) and not by the hexagonal cell with the space group P6m2.
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- Emilia Alwin
- Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8, 61-614 Poznań, Poland. and Univ. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, Univ. Artois, UMR 8181 - UCCS - Unité de Catalyse et Chimie du Solide, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8, 61-614 Poznań, Poland.
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, Univ. Artois, UMR 8181 - UCCS - Unité de Catalyse et Chimie du Solide, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8, 61-614 Poznań, Poland.
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8, 61-614 Poznań, Poland.
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Li X, Xi S, Sun L, Dou S, Huang Z, Su T, Wang X. Isolated FeN 4 Sites for Efficient Electrocatalytic CO 2 Reduction. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2020; 7:2001545. [PMID: 32995135 PMCID: PMC7507046 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202001545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2020] [Revised: 05/16/2020] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The construction of isolated metal sites represents a promising approach for electrocatalyst design toward the efficient electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2). Herein, Fe-doped graphitic carbon nitride is rationally prepared by a simple adsorption method and is used as template to construct isolated FeN4 sites through a confined pyrolysis strategy, which avoids the agglomeration of metal atoms to particles during the synthesis process and thus provides abundant active sites for the CO2 reduction reaction. The isolated FeN4 sites lower the energy barrier for the key intermediate in the CO2 reduction process, leading to the enhanced selectivity for CO production with a faradaic efficiency of up to 93%.
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- Xiaogang Li
- School of Chemical and Biomedical EngineeringNanyang Technological University62 Nanyang DriveSingapore637459Singapore
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- Institute of Chemical and Engineering SciencesA*STARSingapore627833Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical EngineeringNanyang Technological University62 Nanyang DriveSingapore637459Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical EngineeringNanyang Technological University62 Nanyang DriveSingapore637459Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical EngineeringNanyang Technological University62 Nanyang DriveSingapore637459Singapore
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- Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational ChemistryInstitute of Theoretical ChemistryJilin UniversityChangchun130012P. R. China
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical EngineeringNanyang Technological University62 Nanyang DriveSingapore637459Singapore
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Liu H, Chen Y, Li H, Jiang H, Tian G. Achieving cadmium selenide-decorated zinc ferrite@titanium dioxide hollow core/shell nanospheres with improved light trapping and charge generation for photocatalytic hydrogen generation. J Colloid Interface Sci 2020; 575:158-167. [PMID: 32361232 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2020.04.094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2020] [Revised: 04/21/2020] [Accepted: 04/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We report the rational design and fabrication of magnetically separable zinc ferrite@titanium dioxide (ZnFe2O4@TiO2) hollow core/shell nanospheres as photocatalysts for efficient H2 evolution by loading the TiO2 shell layer on the prepared ZnFe2O4 hollow nanospheres using the kinetics-controlled coating method. Meanwhile, the incident light absorption, photogenerated charge transfer and separation and photocatalytic hydrogen evolution activity were remarkably improved by well anchoring cadmium selenide (CdSe) quantum dots on the ZnFe2O4@TiO2 hollow core/shell nanospheres. This unique design integrates the structural and functional merits of the ZnFe2O4, TiO2, and CdSe quantum dots into porous hollow nanospheres with the double-shell heterostructure. This design significantly accelerates the separation and transport of photogenerated charge carriers, enhances the light absorption, and offers more active sites for the photocatalytic H2 evolution reaction. Benefitting from the unique structural and component merits, the optimized magnetically separable ZnFe2O4@TiO2/CdSe hollow core/shell nanospheres exhibit excellent photocatalytic hydrogen evolution performance with a high H2 generation rate (266.0 μmol h-1·g-1) and high stability.
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- He Liu
- Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, PR China.
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, PR China.
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Lu N, Sun M, Wei X, Zhang P, Zhang Z. Facile Synthesis of Lacunary Keggin-Type Phosphotungstates-Decorated g-C 3N 4 Nanosheets for Enhancing Photocatalytic H 2 Generation. Polymers (Basel) 2020; 12:E1961. [PMID: 32872550 PMCID: PMC7564915 DOI: 10.3390/polym12091961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2020] [Revised: 08/21/2020] [Accepted: 08/25/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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In this work, the lacunary Keggin-type phosphotungstates of [PW9O34]9- (PW9) clusters were loaded onto the g-C3N4 nanosheets (NSs) to synthesize the phosphotungstate clusters-decorated 2D heterojunction photocatalysts by using the electrostatic-force driven self-assembly process. The surface charge polarity of g-C3N4 NSs was changed from a negative to a positive charge through the acidizing treatment. The positively-charged g-C3N4 NSs allowed the negatively-charged PW9 clusters to be adsorbed and deposited onto the g-C3N4 NSs, forming the PW9/g-C3N4 heterojunction NSs. The as-synthesized samples were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, and UV-VIS absorption spectra, respectively. The photocatalytic activity tests indicated that, upon simulated sunlight irradiation, the photocatalytic H2-generation rate of PW9/g-C3N4 heterojunction NSs (~23.8 μmol h-1) was ~3.3 times higher than that of the pure g-C3N4 NSs (~7.3 μmol h-1). The enhanced photocatalytic activity of PW9 cluster-decorated g-C3N4 NSs could be attributed to the enhanced separation process of the photoinduced charge-carriers, due to the Z-scheme-mediate charge transfer behavior across their hetero-interface.
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- Na Lu
- Key Laboratory of New Energy and Rare Earth Resource Utilization of State Ethnic Affairs Commission, Key Laboratory of Photosensitive Materials & Devices of Liaoning Province, School of Physics and Materials Engineering, Dalian Minzu University, 18 Liaohe West Road, Dalian 116600, China; (N.L.); (M.S.)
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- Key Laboratory of New Energy and Rare Earth Resource Utilization of State Ethnic Affairs Commission, Key Laboratory of Photosensitive Materials & Devices of Liaoning Province, School of Physics and Materials Engineering, Dalian Minzu University, 18 Liaohe West Road, Dalian 116600, China; (N.L.); (M.S.)
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- Key Laboratory of New Energy and Rare Earth Resource Utilization of State Ethnic Affairs Commission, Key Laboratory of Photosensitive Materials & Devices of Liaoning Province, School of Physics and Materials Engineering, Dalian Minzu University, 18 Liaohe West Road, Dalian 116600, China; (N.L.); (M.S.)
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China;
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- Key Laboratory of New Energy and Rare Earth Resource Utilization of State Ethnic Affairs Commission, Key Laboratory of Photosensitive Materials & Devices of Liaoning Province, School of Physics and Materials Engineering, Dalian Minzu University, 18 Liaohe West Road, Dalian 116600, China; (N.L.); (M.S.)
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CN/iodine-doped CN homojunction powder catalysts with excellent visible-light photocatalytic properties. POWDER TECHNOL 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2020.06.071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Naveen Kumar TR, Karthik P, Neppolian B. Polaron and bipolaron induced charge carrier transportation for enhanced photocatalytic H 2 production. NANOSCALE 2020; 12:14213-14221. [PMID: 32608424 DOI: 10.1039/d0nr02950e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Photocatalysis is one of the facile approaches for efficient solar energy conversion and storage. However, rapid charge carrier recombination considerably decreases solar to energy conversion efficiency. Herein, polaron and bipolaron rich polypyrrole (PPy) has been utilized as a solid support for effective photogenerated charge carrier separation. Simple oxidative polymerization using a high concentration of ammonium persulfate (APS) induces radical cation/bipolaron formation in PPy due to the cleavage of π-bonds as confirmed by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy (EPR). The formation of radical cations led to an increase of the dielectric constant which retards the charge carrier recombination and thereby enhances the conductivity. Moreover, the polarons and bipolarons induced charge carrier separation in photocatalytic H2 production was studied with the well-known g-C3N4 photocatalyst. It is worth mentioning that compared to bare g-C3N4, the PPy supported system showed a drastically enhanced photocatalytic H2 production rate. A maximum H2 production rate of 1851 μmoles per g is achieved, which is ∼51 times higher than that of the bare g-C3N4 catalyst due to efficient charge carrier separation assisted by radical cations/bipolarons. Thus, utilizing this simple polaron and bipolaron rich PPy solid support could be an effective strategy and alternative for using noble metal cocatalysts to enhance charge carrier separation.
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- T R Naveen Kumar
- SRM Research Institute, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai-603203, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Ding H, Han D, Han Y, Liang Y, Liu X, Li Z, Zhu S, Wu S. Visible light responsive CuS/ protonated g-C 3N 4 heterostructure for rapid sterilization. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2020; 393:122423. [PMID: 32135368 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.122423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2019] [Revised: 02/22/2020] [Accepted: 02/27/2020] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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As the environment deterioration is becoming more serious, bacterial pollution is threatening the health of human beings. Hence, it is vital to develop rapid and safe sterilization strategy. Herein, CuS/protonated g-C3N4(CuS/PCN) composites were synthesized by simple hydrothermal method and electrostatic adsorption. This heterostructured system exhibited enhanced photocatalytic properties under visible light compared with CuS or g-C3N4 alone, ascribing to the rapid separation of photogenerated electron-hole pairs. Meanwhile, the obvious photothermal effects of CuS/PCN were achieved and the temperature increased with the increased amount of CuS in the composites due to the more light absorption. However, when the CuS content is more than 10 %, photocurrent density is decreased with increasing the amount of CuS, indicating the increased recombination of photogenerated electron-hole pairs. When the CuS content is 20 %, the composite can perform the optimized synergistic effects of both photothermal action and photocatalysis under light irradiation for 20 min. The corresponding bacteria-killing efficiency against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli is 98.23 % and 99.16 %, respectively. The underlying mechanism is that the bacterial membrane can be weakened by reactive oxygen species and bacterial activities are inhibited by hyperthermia. This CuS/PCN heterojunction is promising for environmental disinfection including water and public facilities sterilization.
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- Hongyan Ding
- The Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology by the Ministry of Education of China, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology by the Ministry of Education of China, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology by the Ministry of Education of China, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.
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- The Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology by the Ministry of Education of China, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials, Ministry-of-Education Key Laboratory for the Green Preparation and Application of Functional Materials, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China.
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- The Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology by the Ministry of Education of China, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology by the Ministry of Education of China, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology by the Ministry of Education of China, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.
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Wang P, Tian L, Gao X, Xu Y, Yang P. Two‐photon Absorption in a Defect‐engineered Carbon Nitride Polymer Drives Red‐light Photocatalysis. ChemCatChem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202000803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Peng Wang
- School of Material and Chemical Engineering Xuzhou Institute of Technology Xuzhou 221018 P.R. China
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- School of Material and Chemical Engineering Xuzhou Institute of Technology Xuzhou 221018 P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of High-efficiency Utilization of Coal and Green Chemical Engineering Ningxia University Yinchuan 750021 P.R. China
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- School of Material and Chemical Engineering Xuzhou Institute of Technology Xuzhou 221018 P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Shanxi University Taiyuan 030006 P.R. China
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Metal organic framework derived heteroatoms and cyano ( C N) group co-decorated porous g-C3N4 nanosheets for improved photocatalytic H2 evolution and uranium(VI) reduction. J Colloid Interface Sci 2020; 570:125-134. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2020.02.091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2020] [Revised: 02/17/2020] [Accepted: 02/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Luo M, Yang Q, Yang W, Wang J, He F, Liu K, Cao H, Yan H. Defects Engineering Leads to Enhanced Photocatalytic H 2 Evolution on Graphitic Carbon Nitride-Covalent Organic Framework Nanosheet Composite. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2020; 16:e2001100. [PMID: 32323466 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202001100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2020] [Revised: 03/23/2020] [Accepted: 03/29/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Graphitic carbon nitride nanosheet (CNS) represents an attractive candidate for solar fuel production. However, the abundant defects in CNS lead to serious charge recombination and limit the photocatalytic performance. Herein, the synthesis of a CNS-covalent organic framework (CNS-COF) nanosheet composite is presented for the first time. CNS with significantly reduced defects is first obtained by rationally tuning the thermal exfoliation conditions of bulk carbon nitride. Subsequent modification of the CNS with trace COF nanosheet through chemical imine bonding can not only passivate the surface termination of carbon nitride in the boundary region, but also establish strong electronic coupling between these two components. As a consequence, enhanced charge separation and photocatalytic activity are realized on the resulting CNS-COF nanosheet composite. Under optimum conditions, hydrogen is evolved at a rate of 46.4 mmol g-1 h-1 . This corresponds to an apparent quantum efficiency of 31.8% at 425 nm, which is among the best values ever reported for carbon nitride-based materials.
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- Maolan Luo
- College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610065, China
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- College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610065, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environment-friendly Energy Materials, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan, 621010, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics and Dynamics Research Center for Energy and Environmental Materials, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environment-friendly Energy Materials, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan, 621010, China
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- College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610065, China
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- College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610065, China
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- College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610065, China
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Yuan J, Yi X, Tang Y, Liu C, Luo S. Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution and CO 2 Reduction: Enhanced Light Absorption, Charge Separation, and Hydrophilicity by Tailoring Terminal and Linker Units in g-C 3N 4. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:19607-19615. [PMID: 32282182 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c04028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Although graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) has been identified as a promising photocatalyst, pristine g-C3N4 has a limited light absorption, insolubility, small specific surface area, and rapid electron-hole pair recombination. In this study, hydroxyl-grafted oxygen-linked tri-s-triazine-based polymer (HGONTP) is achieved through the polycondensation of hydrothermally pretreated dicyandiamide (DCDA). The content of C-O-C linkers and terminal OH groups in HGONTP can be regulated by the cyclization and hydrolysis degrees of DCDA through the replacement of the pendant NH2 groups with OH groups. The HGONTP photocatalyst exhibits an outstanding light absorption from UV to near-IR, possessing a narrow band gap of 2.18 eV, a hydrophilic surface, a large specific surface area of 96.1 m2 g-1, and reduced charge recombination. As a result, HGONTP exhibits a hydrogen evolution rate 27.7-fold higher than that for pristine g-C3N4 (6.54 vs 0.236 mmol g-1 h-1). The apparent quantum yield reaches 12.6% at 420 nm and 4.1% at 500 nm. In addition, the photocatalytic conversion efficiency of CO2 to CO reaches as high as 3.3 μmol g-1 h-1 without cocatalysts and sacrificial agents. The selectivity of CO2 to CO achieves 88.4%. The proposed strategy paves a new avenue to design high-performance polymeric photocatalysts used in water.
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- Jili Yuan
- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P.R. China
- Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, United States of America
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P.R. China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P.R. China
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Wang W, Zhou H, Liu Y, Zhang S, Zhang Y, Wang G, Zhang H, Zhao H. Formation of BNC Coordination to Stabilize the Exposed Active Nitrogen Atoms in g-C 3 N 4 for Dramatically Enhanced Photocatalytic Ammonia Synthesis Performance. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2020; 16:e1906880. [PMID: 32077593 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201906880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2019] [Revised: 01/17/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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It is an important issue that exposed active nitrogen atoms (e.g., edge or amino N atoms) in graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3 N4 ) could participate in ammonia (NH3 ) synthesis during the photocatalytic nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR). Herein, the experimental results in this work demonstrate that the exposed active N atoms in g-C3 N4 nanosheets can indeed be hydrogenated and contribute to NH3 synthesis during the visible-light photocatalytic NRR. However, these exposed N atoms can be firmly stabilized through forming BNC coordination by means of B-doping in g-C3 N4 nanosheets (BCN) with a B-doping content of 13.8 wt%. Moreover, the formed BNC coordination in g-C3 N4 not only effectively enhances the visible-light harvesting and suppresses the recombination of photogenerated carriers in g-C3 N4 , but also acts as the catalytic active site for N2 adsorption, activation, and hydrogenation. Consequently, the as-synthesized BCN exhibits high visible-light-driven photocatalytic NRR activity, affording an NH3 yield rate of 313.9 µmol g-1 h-1 , nearly 10 times of that for pristine g-C3 N4 . This work would be helpful for designing and developing high-efficiency metal-free NRR catalysts for visible-light-driven photocatalytic NH3 synthesis.
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- Weikang Wang
- Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Centre for Environmental and Energy Nanomaterials, Anhui Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui, 230031, China
- Science Island Branch of Graduate School, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China
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- Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Centre for Environmental and Energy Nanomaterials, Anhui Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui, 230031, China
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- Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Centre for Environmental and Energy Nanomaterials, Anhui Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui, 230031, China
- Science Island Branch of Graduate School, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China
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- Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Centre for Environmental and Energy Nanomaterials, Anhui Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui, 230031, China
- Science Island Branch of Graduate School, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China
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- Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Centre for Environmental and Energy Nanomaterials, Anhui Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui, 230031, China
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- Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Centre for Environmental and Energy Nanomaterials, Anhui Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui, 230031, China
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- Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Centre for Environmental and Energy Nanomaterials, Anhui Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui, 230031, China
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- Centre for Clean Environment and Energy, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Queensland, 4222, Australia
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Parviz D, Bitounis D, Demokritou P, Strano M. Engineering Two-dimensional Nanomaterials to Enable Structure-Activity Relationship Studies in Nanosafety Research. NANOIMPACT 2020; 18:100226. [PMID: 32617436 PMCID: PMC7331938 DOI: 10.1016/j.impact.2020.100226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Emerging, two-dimensional engineered nanomaterials (2DNMs) possess unique and diverse physical and chemical properties, such as extreme aspect ratios, adjustable electronic properties as well as functional lattice defects and surface chemistry which underpin their interactions with biological systems. This perspective highlights the need for structure activity relationship (SAR) studies for key properties of emerging grapheme-related and inorganic 2DNMs upon prioritization based on their potential impact and trajectory for large-scale production and applications. Further, it is discussed how a synthesis platform of microbiologically sterile, size-sorted, "model" 2DNMs with precise structure would enable SAR toxicological studies and allow for the sustainable and safe translation of 2D nanotechnology to real-world applications.
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- Dorsa Parviz
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue 66-570b Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Center for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology, HSPH-NIEHS Nanosafety Center, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public School, Harvard University, 665 Huntington, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Center for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology, HSPH-NIEHS Nanosafety Center, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public School, Harvard University, 665 Huntington, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue 66-570b Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Acharya L, Nayak S, Pattnaik SP, Acharya R, Parida K. Resurrection of boron nitride in p-n type-II boron nitride/B-doped-g-C3N4 nanocomposite during solid-state Z-scheme charge transfer path for the degradation of tetracycline hydrochloride. J Colloid Interface Sci 2020; 566:211-223. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2020.01.074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2019] [Revised: 01/13/2020] [Accepted: 01/19/2020] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Pan Z, Niu P, Liu M, Zhang G, Zhu Z, Wang X. Molecular Junctions on Polymeric Carbon Nitrides with Enhanced Photocatalytic Performance. CHEMSUSCHEM 2020; 13:888-892. [PMID: 31903727 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201903172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2019] [Revised: 12/27/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Molecular catalysts (MC), namely homogeneous catalysts, have demonstrated great promise for efficient solar-to-chemical energy conversion in the hybrid system. However, the poor interfacial interaction between MC and photosensitizers (PS) impedes the efficient and fast interfacial electron transfer. To promote interfacial communication between PS and MC, a proof-of-concept method was developed for the combination of polymeric carbon nitride (PCN) PS with bipyridine cobalt [Co(bpy)3 2+ ] MC by covalent bonds, creating molecular junctions to promote interfacial electron transfer as confirmed by transient photoluminescence lifetime and electrochemical measurements. As a result, the binary photocatalyst [Co(bpy)3 2+ /BINA2 -CN] showed extensively enhanced photocatalytic activity such as H2 and CO2 reduction in comparison with the physical mixture of Co(bpy)3 2+ and PCN. This observation highlights the importance of construction of surface molecular junctions between PS and MC to accelerate the interfacial charge-carrier mobility and, consequently, improve the photocatalytic activity.
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- Zhiming Pan
- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P. R. China
- College of Chemical Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P. R. China
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Karjule N, Barrio J, Tzadikov J, Shalom M. Electronic Structure Engineering of Carbon Nitride Materials by Using Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Chemistry 2020; 26:6622-6628. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201905875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2019] [Revised: 01/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Neeta Karjule
- Department of Chemistry and Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and TechnologyBen-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva 8410501 Israel
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- Department of Chemistry and Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and TechnologyBen-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva 8410501 Israel
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- Department of Chemistry and Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and TechnologyBen-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva 8410501 Israel
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- Department of Chemistry and Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and TechnologyBen-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva 8410501 Israel
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Wang M, Zhang M, Zhu J, Wang J, Hu L, Sun T, Wang M, Tang Y. g‐C
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- Minmin Wang
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nantong University Nantong 226007 China
- Nantong Key Lab of Intelligent and New Energy Materials Nantong University Nantong 226007 China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nantong University Nantong 226007 China
- Nantong Key Lab of Intelligent and New Energy Materials Nantong University Nantong 226007 China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nantong University Nantong 226007 China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nantong University Nantong 226007 China
- Nantong Key Lab of Intelligent and New Energy Materials Nantong University Nantong 226007 China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nantong University Nantong 226007 China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nantong University Nantong 226007 China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nantong University Nantong 226007 China
- Nantong Key Lab of Intelligent and New Energy Materials Nantong University Nantong 226007 China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nantong University Nantong 226007 China
- Nantong Key Lab of Intelligent and New Energy Materials Nantong University Nantong 226007 China
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Li B, Si Y, Fang Q, Shi Y, Huang WQ, Hu W, Pan A, Fan X, Huang GF. Hierarchical Self-assembly of Well-Defined Louver-Like P-Doped Carbon Nitride Nanowire Arrays with Highly Efficient Hydrogen Evolution. NANO-MICRO LETTERS 2020; 12:52. [PMID: 34138281 PMCID: PMC7770876 DOI: 10.1007/s40820-020-0399-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 02/01/2020] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Self-assembled nanostructure arrays integrating the advantages of the intrinsic characters of nanostructure as well as the array stability are appealing in advanced materials. However, the precise bottom-up synthesis of nanostructure arrays without templates or substrates is quite challenging because of the general occurrence of homogeneous nucleation and the difficult manipulation of noncovalent interactions. Herein, we first report the precisely manipulated synthesis of well-defined louver-like P-doped carbon nitride nanowire arrays (L-PCN) via a supramolecular self-assembly method by regulating the noncovalent interactions through hydrogen bond. With this strategy, CN nanowires align in the outer frame with the separation and spatial location achieving ultrastability and outstanding photoelectricity properties. Significantly, this self-assembly L-PCN exhibits a superior visible light-driven hydrogen evolution activity of 1872.9 μmol h-1 g-1, rendering a ~ 25.6-fold enhancement compared to bulk CN, and high photostability. Moreover, an apparent quantum efficiency of 6.93% is achieved for hydrogen evolution at 420 ± 15 nm. The experimental results and first-principles calculations demonstrate that the remarkable enhancement of photocatalytic activity of L-PCN can be attributed to the synergetic effect of structural topology and dopant. These findings suggest that we are able to design particular hierarchical nanostructures with desirable performance using hydrogen-bond engineering.
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- Bo Li
- Department of Applied Physics, College of Physics and Electronics, and College of Materials Science and Engineering, and State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Physics, College of Physics and Electronics, and College of Materials Science and Engineering, and State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Physics, College of Physics and Electronics, and College of Materials Science and Engineering, and State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Physics and Tsinghua-Foxconn Nanotechnology Research Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Physics, College of Physics and Electronics, and College of Materials Science and Engineering, and State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, People's Republic of China.
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- Department of Applied Physics, College of Physics and Electronics, and College of Materials Science and Engineering, and State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, People's Republic of China.
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- Department of Applied Physics, College of Physics and Electronics, and College of Materials Science and Engineering, and State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, People's Republic of China
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- College of Physics, Liaoning University, Shenyang, 110036, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Physics, College of Physics and Electronics, and College of Materials Science and Engineering, and State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, People's Republic of China.
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Wu M, He X, Jing B, Wang T, Wang C, Qin Y, Ao Z, Wang S, An T. Novel carbon and defects co-modified g-C 3N 4 for highly efficient photocatalytic degradation of bisphenol A under visible light. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2020; 384:121323. [PMID: 31586913 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.121323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2019] [Revised: 09/14/2019] [Accepted: 09/25/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Graphite carbon nitride (g-C3N4, CN) is considered as a promising semiconductor for environmental catalysis. However, pure CN can not meet the requirements for actual applications due to its high recombination rate of photogenerated electron-hole pairs and a relatively large band gap preventing full utilization of solar energy. In this work, we report synthesis of a novel carbon and defects co-modified g-C3N4 (CxCN) by calcination of melamine activated by oxalic. This new catalyst CxCN has porous structure with much higher surface areas compared with pristine CN. UV-vis analysis and DFT calculations show that CxCN has a lower bandgap for enhancing visible light adsorption compared with CN. Photoluminescence (PL) and photoelectrochemical analyses show that CxCN has a low recombination rate of photogenerated electron-hole pairs, which improves the utilization of solar energy. As a result, CxCN samples show high efficiency for the degradation of bisphenol A (BPA) under visible light irradiation, where the best catalyst of CxCN (C1.0CN) samples shows about 22 times higher photocatalytic degradation rate than that of CN. Moreover, C1.0CN shows high mineralization rate and can degrade BPA into CO2 and H2O by the generated active species, like superoxide radicals (O2-) and holes (h+).
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- Ming Wu
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Health Risk Control, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Pollution Control, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Institute of Environmental Health and Pollution Control, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 51006, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Health Risk Control, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Pollution Control, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Institute of Environmental Health and Pollution Control, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 51006, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Health Risk Control, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Pollution Control, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Institute of Environmental Health and Pollution Control, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 51006, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Health Risk Control, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Pollution Control, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Institute of Environmental Health and Pollution Control, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 51006, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Environmental Engineering and Monitoring, Yangzhou University, 180 Si-Wang Ting Road, Yangzhou, 225002, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 51006, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Health Risk Control, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Pollution Control, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Institute of Environmental Health and Pollution Control, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 51006, China.
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- School of Chemical Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Health Risk Control, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Pollution Control, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Institute of Environmental Health and Pollution Control, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 51006, China
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Zheng M, Cai W, Fang Y, Wang X. Nanoscale boron carbonitride semiconductors for photoredox catalysis. NANOSCALE 2020; 12:3593-3604. [PMID: 32020138 DOI: 10.1039/c9nr09333h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The conversion of solar energy to chemical energy achieved by photocatalysts comprising homogeneous transition-metal based systems, organic dyes, or semiconductors has received significant attention in recent years. Among these photocatalysts, boron carbon nitride (BCN) materials, as an emerging class of metal-free heterogeneous semiconductors, have extended the scope of photocatalysts due to their good performance and Earth abundance. The combination of boron (B), carbon (C), and nitrogen (N) constitutes a ternary system with large surface area and abundant activity sites, which together contribute to the good performance for reduction reactions, oxidation reactions and orchestrated both reduction and oxidation reactions. This Minireview reports the methods for the synthesis of nanoscale hexagonal boron carbonitride (h-BCN) and describes the latest advances in the application of h-BCN materials as semiconductor photocatalysts for sustainable photosynthesis, such as water splitting, reduction of CO2, acceptorless dehydrogenation, oxidation of sp3 C-H bonds, and sp2 C-H functionalization. h-BCN materials may have potential for applications in other organic transformations and industrial manufacture in the future.
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- Meifang Zheng
- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China.
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Liu Q, Tian H, Dai Z, Sun H, Liu J, Ao Z, Wang S, Han C, Liu S. Nitrogen-doped Carbon Nanospheres-Modified Graphitic Carbon Nitride with Outstanding Photocatalytic Activity. NANO-MICRO LETTERS 2020; 12:24. [PMID: 34138065 PMCID: PMC7770884 DOI: 10.1007/s40820-019-0358-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2019] [Accepted: 12/08/2019] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Metals and metal oxides are widely used as photo/electro-catalysts for environmental remediation. However, there are many issues related to these metal-based catalysts for practical applications, such as high cost and detrimental environmental impact due to metal leaching. Carbon-based catalysts have the potential to overcome these limitations. In this study, monodisperse nitrogen-doped carbon nanospheres (NCs) were synthesized and loaded onto graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4, GCN) via a facile hydrothermal method for photocatalytic removal of sulfachloropyridazine (SCP). The prepared metal-free GCN-NC exhibited remarkably enhanced efficiency in SCP degradation. The nitrogen content in NC critically influences the physicochemical properties and performances of the resultant hybrids. The optimum nitrogen doping concentration was identified at 6.0 wt%. The SCP removal rates can be improved by a factor of 4.7 and 3.2, under UV and visible lights, by the GCN-NC composite due to the enhanced charge mobility and visible light harvesting. The mechanism of the improved photocatalytic performance and band structure alternation were further investigated by density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The DFT results confirm the high capability of the GCN-NC hybrids to activate the electron-hole pairs by reducing the band gap energy and efficiently separating electron/hole pairs. Superoxide and hydroxyl radicals are subsequently produced, leading to the efficient SCP removal.
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- Qiaoran Liu
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, 6027, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia.
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Bhavani P, Kumar DP, Shim HS, Rangappa P, Gopannagari M, Reddy DA, Song JK, Kim TK. In situ addition of Ni salt onto a skeletal Cu7S4 integrated CdS nanorod photocatalyst for efficient production of H2 under solar light irradiation. Catal Sci Technol 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cy02612f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Development of earth-abundant, low cost, skeletal-type copper sulfide superstructures and in situ addition of Ni salts plays a prominent role to enhance the activity of CdS semiconductor nanostructures for photocatalytic H2 production.
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- P. Bhavani
- Department of Chemistry
- Yonsei University
- Seoul 03722
- Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry
- Yonsei University
- Seoul 03722
- Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry
- Kyung Hee University
- Seoul 02447
- Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry
- Yonsei University
- Seoul 03722
- Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry
- Kyung Hee University
- Seoul 02447
- Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry
- Yonsei University
- Seoul 03722
- Republic of Korea
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Ojha N, Bajpai A, Kumar S. Enhanced and selective photocatalytic reduction of CO2 by H2O over strategically doped Fe and Cr into porous boron carbon nitride. Catal Sci Technol 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cy00343c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Strategic doping of metals and non-metals into a photocatalyst can help in tuning the band gap and alignment of band structure.
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- Niwesh Ojha
- Gas-Solid Interaction Laboratory
- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
- Indian Institute of Technology Patna
- Patna
- India
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- Gas-Solid Interaction Laboratory
- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
- Indian Institute of Technology Patna
- Patna
- India
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- Gas-Solid Interaction Laboratory
- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
- Indian Institute of Technology Patna
- Patna
- India
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Huang X, Gu W, Hu S, Hu Y, Zhou L, Lei J, Wang L, Liu Y, Zhang J. Phosphorus-doped inverse opal g-C3N4 for efficient and selective CO generation from photocatalytic reduction of CO2. Catal Sci Technol 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cy00457j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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In this work, inverse opal (IO) structure construction and phosphorus doping were combined to modify carbon nitride (g-C3N4) for the photocatalytic reduction of CO2.
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- Xiaoyue Huang
- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- East China University of Science and Technology
- Shanghai 200237
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Environmental Risk Assessment and Control on Chemical Process
- School of Resources and Environmental Engineering
- East China University of Science and Technology
- Shanghai 200237
- P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- East China University of Science and Technology
- Shanghai 200237
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Environmental Risk Assessment and Control on Chemical Process
- School of Resources and Environmental Engineering
- East China University of Science and Technology
- Shanghai 200237
- P. R. China
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Environmental Risk Assessment and Control on Chemical Process
- School of Resources and Environmental Engineering
- East China University of Science and Technology
- Shanghai 200237
- P. R. China
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Environmental Risk Assessment and Control on Chemical Process
- School of Resources and Environmental Engineering
- East China University of Science and Technology
- Shanghai 200237
- P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- East China University of Science and Technology
- Shanghai 200237
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Environmental Risk Assessment and Control on Chemical Process
- School of Resources and Environmental Engineering
- East China University of Science and Technology
- Shanghai 200237
- P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- East China University of Science and Technology
- Shanghai 200237
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Wang M, Fan C, Yang S, Liu M, Luo J, Liu Y, Tang L, Gong Z, Leng S. Nitrogen deficient carbon nitride for efficient visible light driven tetracycline degradation: a combination of experimental and DFT studies. Catal Sci Technol 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cy01124j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The narrow visible-light absorption range and a high recombination rate of photo-excited electrons and holes are the main reasons for the confined photocatalytic performance of graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4).
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- Mier Wang
- College of Environmental Science and Engineering
- Hunan University
- Changsha
- China
- Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering
- Hunan University
- Changsha
- China
- Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering
- Hunan University
- Changsha
- China
- Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering
- Hunan University
- Changsha
- China
- Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering
- Hunan University
- Changsha
- China
- Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering
- Hunan University
- Changsha
- China
- Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering
- Hunan University
- Changsha
- China
- Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering
- Hunan University
- Changsha
- China
- Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering
- Hunan University
- Changsha
- China
- Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control
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Ahmed T, Ammar M, Saleem A, Zhang HL, Xu HB. Z-scheme 2D-m-BiVO4 networks decorated by a g-CN nanosheet heterostructured photocatalyst with an excellent response to visible light. RSC Adv 2020; 10:3192-3202. [PMID: 35497764 PMCID: PMC9048574 DOI: 10.1039/c9ra09473c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2019] [Accepted: 12/19/2019] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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For economical water splitting and degradation of toxic organic dyes, the development of inexpensive, efficient, and stable photocatalysts capable of harvesting visible light is essential. In this study, we designed a model system by grafting graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) (g-CN) nanosheets on the surface of 2D monoclinic bismuth vanadate (m-BiVO4) nanoplates by a simple hydrothermal method. This as-synthesized photocatalyst has well-dispersed g-CN nanosheets on the surface of the nanoplates of m-BiVO4, thus forming a heterojunction with a high specific surface area. The degradation rate for bromophenol blue (BPB) shown by BiVO4/g-CN is 96% and that for methylene blue (MB) is 98% within 1 h and 25 min, respectively. The 2D BiVO4/g-CN heterostructure system also shows outstanding durability and retains up to ∼95% degradation efficiency for the MB dye even after eight consecutive cycles; the degradation efficiency for BPB does not change too much after eight consecutive cycles as well. The enhanced photocatalytic activities of BiVO4/g-CN are attributed to the larger surface area, larger number of surface active sites, fast charge transfer and improved separation of photogenerated charge carriers. We proposed a mechanism for the improved photocatalytic performance of the Z-scheme photocatalytic system. The present work gives a good example for the development of a novel Z-scheme heterojunction with good stability and high photocatalytic activity for toxic organic dye degradation and water splitting applications. For economical water splitting and degradation of toxic organic dyes, the development of inexpensive, efficient, and stable photocatalysts capable of harvesting visible light is essential.![]()
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- Toheed Ahmed
- Department of Applied Chemistry
- Government College University
- Faisalabad 38000
- Pakistan
- Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing 100049
- China
- Department of Chemical Engineering Technology
- Government College University
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- Biotechnology and Fermentation Group
- Department of Animal Sciences
- The Ohio State University
- QARDC
- Wooster
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- Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering
- Institute of Process Engineering
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing 100190
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering
- Institute of Process Engineering
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing 100190
- China
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Zhang W, Li L, Gao Y, Zhang D. Graphitic carbon nitride-based materials for photocatalytic reduction of U( vi). NEW J CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/d0nj04519e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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This work reports the photocatalytic reduction of U(vi) using g-C3N4-based materials and discusses the factors affecting the photocatalytic reduction of U(vi).
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- Weizhuo Zhang
- Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Industrial Automation
- School of Mechanical Engineering
- Shaanxi University of Technology
- Hanzhong 723001
- China
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- Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Industrial Automation
- School of Mechanical Engineering
- Shaanxi University of Technology
- Hanzhong 723001
- China
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- Shaanxi Province Key Laboratory of Catalytic Foundation and Application
- School of Chemistry and Environment Science
- Shaanxi University of Technology
- Hanzhong 723001
- China
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- Shaanxi Province Key Laboratory of Catalytic Foundation and Application
- School of Chemistry and Environment Science
- Shaanxi University of Technology
- Hanzhong 723001
- China
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Zhou X, Zhu Y, Gao Q, Zhang S, Ge C, Yang S, Zhong X, Fang Y. Modified Graphitic Carbon Nitride Nanosheets for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. CHEMSUSCHEM 2019; 12:4996-5006. [PMID: 31529775 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201901960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2019] [Revised: 09/15/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Considerable research efforts have been devoted to develop noble-metal-free cocatalysts coupled with semiconductors for highly efficient photocatalytic H2 evolution as part of the challenge toward solar-to-fuel conversion. Herein, a new cocatalyst with excellent activity in the electrocatalytic H2 evolution reaction (HER) that is based on Co sheathed in N-doped graphitic carbon nanosheets (Co@NC) was fabricated by a surfactant-assisted pyrolysis approach and then coupled with g-C3 N4 nanosheets to construct a 2 D-2 D g-C3 N4 /Co@NC composite photocatalyst by a simple grinding method. As a result of advantages in effective electrocatalytic HER activity, suitable electronic band structure, and rapid interfacial charge transfer brought about by the 2 D-2 D spatial configuration, the g-C3 N4 /Co@NC photocatalyst that contained 4 wt % Co@NC presented a high photocatalytic H2 generation rate of 15.67 μmol h-1 under visible-light irradiation (λ≥400 nm), which was 104.5 times higher than that of pristine g-C3 N4 . The optimum g-C3 N4 /Co@NC photocatalyst showed a high apparent quantum efficiency of 10.82 % at λ=400 nm.
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- Xunfu Zhou
- College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, P.R. China
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- College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, P.R. China
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- College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, P.R. China
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- College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, P.R. China
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- College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, P.R. China
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- College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, P.R. China
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- College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, P.R. China
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- College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, P.R. China
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Huang S, Xu Y, Ge F, Tian D, Zhu X, Xie M, Xu H, Li H. Tailoring of crystalline structure of carbon nitride for superior photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. J Colloid Interface Sci 2019; 556:324-334. [PMID: 31454624 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2019.08.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2019] [Revised: 07/31/2019] [Accepted: 08/18/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Light absorption and carrier transfer, are two sequential and complementary steps related to photocatalysis performance, whereas the collective integration of these two aspects into graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) photocatalyst through polycondensation optimization have seldom been achieved. Herein, we report on tailoring the crystalline structure of g-C3N4 by avoiding the formation of incompletely reacted N-rich intermediates and selective breaking the hydrogen bonds between the layers of g-C3N4 simultaneously. The obtained layer plane ordered porous carbon nitride (LOP-CN) material shows efficient photocatalytic H2 generation performance. The highest H2 evolution rate achieved is 53.8 μmol under λ ≥ 400 nm light irradiation, which is 7.4 times higher than that of g-C3N4 prepared by convention thermal polycondensation. The substantially boosted photocatalytic activity is mainly ascribed to the efficient charge separation on long-range atomic order layer plane and the extended visible light harvesting ability. This work highlights the importance of crystalline structure tailoring in improving charge separation and light absorption of g-C3N4 photocatalyst for boosting its photocatalytic H2 evolution activity.
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- Shuquan Huang
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Institute for Energy Research, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Institute for Energy Research, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, PR China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Institute for Energy Research, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Complex Nonferrous Metal Resources Clean Utilization, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, PR China
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- School of Pharmacy, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, PR China
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- School of Pharmacy, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Institute for Energy Research, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Institute for Energy Research, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, PR China.
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Wang Y, Phua SZF, Dong G, Liu X, He B, Zhai Q, Li Y, Zheng C, Quan H, Li Z, Zhao Y. Structure Tuning of Polymeric Carbon Nitride for Solar Energy Conversion: From Nano to Molecular Scale. Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2019.07.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Zhang B, Li X, Zhao Y, Song H, Wang H. Facile synthesis of oxygen doped mesoporous graphitic carbon nitride with high photocatalytic degradation efficiency under simulated solar irradiation. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2019.123736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Zhuge GY, Zhang WD. Boosting photocatalytic hydrogen evolution rate over carbon nitride through tuning its crystallinity and its nitrogen composition. J Colloid Interface Sci 2019; 555:268-275. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2019.07.079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2019] [Revised: 07/25/2019] [Accepted: 07/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Katsumata H, Higashi F, Kobayashi Y, Tateishi I, Furukawa M, Kaneco S. Dual-defect-modified graphitic carbon nitride with boosted photocatalytic activity under visible light. Sci Rep 2019; 9:14873. [PMID: 31619695 PMCID: PMC6795803 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-49949-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2019] [Accepted: 09/03/2019] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The development of photocatalysts that efficiently degrade organic pollutants is an important environmental-remediation objective. To that end, we report a strategy for the ready fabrication of oxygen-doped graphitic carbon nitride (CN) with engendered nitrogen deficiencies. The addition of KOH and oxalic acid during the thermal condensation of urea led to a material that exhibits a significantly higher pseudo-first-order rate constant for the degradation of bisphenol A (BPA) (0.0225 min-1) compared to that of CN (0.00222 min-1). The enhanced photocatalytic activity for the degradation of BPA exhibited by the dual-defect-modified CN (Bt-OA-CN) is ascribable to a considerable red-shift in its light absorption compared to that of CN, as well as its modulated energy band structure and more-efficient charge separation. Furthermore, we confirmed that the in-situ-formed cyano groups in the Bt-OA-CN photocatalyst act as strong electron-withdrawing groups that efficiently separate and transfer photo-generated charge carriers to the surface of the photocatalyst. This study provides novel insight into the in-situ dual-defect strategy for g-C3N4, which is extendable to the modification of other photocatalysts; it also introduces Bt-OA-CN as a potential highly efficient visible-light-responsive photocatalyst for use in environmental-remediation applications.
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- Hideyuki Katsumata
- Department of Chemistry for Materials, Graduate School of Engineering, Mie University, Tsu, Mie, 514-8507, Japan.
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- Department of Chemistry for Materials, Graduate School of Engineering, Mie University, Tsu, Mie, 514-8507, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry for Materials, Graduate School of Engineering, Mie University, Tsu, Mie, 514-8507, Japan
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- Mie Global Environment Center for Education & Research, Mie University, Tsu, Mie, 514-8507, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry for Materials, Graduate School of Engineering, Mie University, Tsu, Mie, 514-8507, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry for Materials, Graduate School of Engineering, Mie University, Tsu, Mie, 514-8507, Japan
- Mie Global Environment Center for Education & Research, Mie University, Tsu, Mie, 514-8507, Japan
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Wang J, Zhou Q, Shen Y, Chen X, Liu S, Zhang Y. Carbon Nitride Co-catalyst Activation Using N-Doped Carbon with Enhanced Photocatalytic H 2 Evolution. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2019; 35:12366-12373. [PMID: 31464446 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b01796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Photocatalytic water splitting holds huge potential to meet the current challenges of energy and environments. Among them, polymeric carbon nitride (CN) has drawn much attention as a promising metal-free photocatalyst. As it is known, a number of promising co-catalysts have been developed to improve catalytic reactions, Pt nanoparticles is still among the best co-catalysts for CN in photocatalytic H2 evolution, due to the suitable Fermi level to transfer excited electrons and the low overpotential for H2 reduction. Herein, we report the interface engineering of urea-derived bulk CN and Pt co-catalyst by using a small portion of N-doped carbon (N-C) as a transition layer with a boosted photocatalytic activity up to 7 times. It was revealed that the activation energy of the Pt co-catalyst for water reduction was lowered in the presence of N-C, and the intimate interaction between CN and N-C, ascribing to the similar elemental composition and crystal structure, promoted the efficient separation and migration of charge carriers. This study may open a new avenue to develop CN-based photocatalysts for solar fuel conversion with even higher activity by photocatalyst/co-catalyst interface engineering.
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- Jianhai Wang
- Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Smart Carbon-Rich Materials and Device, Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Bio-Medical Research, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Medical School , Southeast University , Nanjing 211189 , China
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- Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Smart Carbon-Rich Materials and Device, Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Bio-Medical Research, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Medical School , Southeast University , Nanjing 211189 , China
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- Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Smart Carbon-Rich Materials and Device, Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Bio-Medical Research, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Medical School , Southeast University , Nanjing 211189 , China
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- Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Smart Carbon-Rich Materials and Device, Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Bio-Medical Research, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Medical School , Southeast University , Nanjing 211189 , China
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- Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Smart Carbon-Rich Materials and Device, Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Bio-Medical Research, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Medical School , Southeast University , Nanjing 211189 , China
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- Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Smart Carbon-Rich Materials and Device, Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Bio-Medical Research, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Medical School , Southeast University , Nanjing 211189 , China
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Hou L, Qin Y, Li J, Qin S, Huang Y, Lin T, Guo L, Ye F, Zhao S. A ratiometric multicolor fluorescence biosensor for visual detection of alkaline phosphatase activity via a smartphone. Biosens Bioelectron 2019; 143:111605. [PMID: 31442751 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2019.111605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2019] [Revised: 08/13/2019] [Accepted: 08/15/2019] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Herein we designed a selective and smartphone-based strategy for visual detection of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) by utilizing the property of amino-functionalized copper (II)-based metal-organic frameworks (NH2-Cu-MOFs) with oxidase mimic property and fluorescence property. Surprisingly, the oxidase mimic property of NH2-Cu-MOFs can work well at a high pH value 8.0. Thus, a cascade reaction between ALP and NH2-Cu-MOFs was realized for the construction of a ratiometric multicolor sensing platform through the controllable catalytic activity of NH2-Cu-MOFs by pyrophosphate (PPi) and ALP. The catalytic activity of NH2-Cu-MOFs was greatly inhibited because of the binding ability of Cu2+ with PPi. When the ALP was added, the catalytic activity of NH2-Cu-MOFs was restored and then further catalyzed the o-phenylenediamine to form the 2, 3-diaminophenazine due to the hydrolysis function of ALP towards PPi into orthophosphates. RGB analysis of the fluorescent sample images was adopted for ALP quantitative analysis. Besides, a hydrogel test kit and mobile app for ALP detection were designed as conceptual products for point-of-care. The LODs of the fluorescence sensing platform was 0.078 mU mL-1 and 0.35 mU mL-1 by solution analysis and hydrogel test kit analysis, respectively. This fluorescent visual method was applied to ALP detection in serum samples with satisfying results, which opened a promising horizon for the diagnosis of other biomarkers in clinical serum samples based on ALP-mediated enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the development of biomedicine and clinical diagnosis.
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- Li Hou
- State Key Laboratory for the Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources, College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Science, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, 541004, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory for the Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources, College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Science, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, 541004, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory for the Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources, College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Science, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, 541004, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory for the Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources, College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Science, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, 541004, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory for the Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources, College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Science, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, 541004, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory for the Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources, College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Science, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, 541004, PR China.
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Analytical Science of Food Safety and Biology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Analysis and Detection Technology for Food Safety, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory for the Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources, College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Science, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, 541004, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory for the Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources, College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Science, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, 541004, PR China
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Li Y, Kong T, Shen S. Artificial Photosynthesis with Polymeric Carbon Nitride: When Meeting Metal Nanoparticles, Single Atoms, and Molecular Complexes. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2019; 15:e1900772. [PMID: 30977981 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201900772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2019] [Revised: 03/17/2019] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Artificial photosynthesis for solar water splitting and CO2 reduction to produce hydrogen and hydrocarbon fuels has been considered as one of the most promising ways to solve increasingly serious energy and environmental problems. As a well-documented metal-free semiconductor, polymeric carbon nitride (PCN) has been widely used and intensively investigated for photocatalytic water splitting and CO2 reduction, owing to its physicochemical stability, visible-light response, and facile synthesis. However, PCN as a photocatalyst still suffers from the fast recombination of electron-hole pairs and poor water redox reaction kinetics, greatly restricting its activity for artificial photosynthesis. Among the various modification approaches developed so far, decorating PCN with metals in different existences of nanoparticles, single atoms and molecular complexes, has been evidently very effective to overcome these limitations to improve photocatalytic performances. In this Review article, a systematic introduction to the state-of-the-art metal/PCN photocatalyst systems is given, with metals in versatility of nanoparticles, single atoms, and molecular complexes. Then, the recent processes of the metal/PCN photocatalyst systems in the applications of artificial photosynthesis, e.g., water splitting and CO2 reduction, are reviewed. Finally, the remaining challenges and opportunities for the development of high efficiency metal/PCN photocatalyst systems are presented and prospected.
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- Yanrui Li
- International Research Center for Renewable Energy, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xi'an Shiyou University, Xi'an, 710054, China
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- International Research Center for Renewable Energy, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China
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Ren W, Cheng J, Ou H, Huang C, Titirici MM, Wang X. Enhancing Visible-Light Hydrogen Evolution Performance of Crystalline Carbon Nitride by Defect Engineering. CHEMSUSCHEM 2019; 12:3257-3262. [PMID: 31050189 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201901011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2019] [Revised: 04/27/2019] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Crystalline carbon nitride (CCN)-based semiconductors have recently attracted widespread attention in solar energy conversion. However, further modifying the photocatalytic ability of CCN always results in a trade-off between high crystallinity and good photocatalytic performance. Herein, a facile defect engineering strategy was demonstrated to modify the CCN photocatalysts. Results confirmed that the obtained D-CCN maintained the high crystallinity; additionally, the hydrogen production rate of D-CCN was approximately 8 times higher than that of CCN. Particularly, it could produce H2 even if the incident light wavelength extended to 610 nm. The significantly improved photocatalytic activity could be ascribed to the introduction of defects into the CCN polymer network to form the midgap states, which significantly broadened the visible-light absorption range and accelerated the charge separation for photoredox catalysis.
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- Wei Ren
- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P.R. China
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- School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 4NS, UK
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SE7 2AZ, UK
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P.R. China
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Yin L, Wang S, Yang C, Lyu S, Wang X. Modulation of Polymeric Carbon Nitrides through Supramolecular Preorganization for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation. CHEMSUSCHEM 2019; 12:3320-3325. [PMID: 31087752 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201900979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Supramolecular pre-assembly by design is an effective strategy to adapt the physicochemical properties of polymeric carbon nitrides (PCNs) to improve their solar conversion performance. A new supramolecular preorganization protocol, which employs H2 O as the self-assembly medium and sodium persulfate as a modifier, is proposed to modulate the textural and photoelectronic features of PCNs for efficient visible-light H2 evolution. Sodium persulfate is revealed to precisely tailor the final carbon nitride polymers with unusual porous layered structures and promoted charge separation and migration kinetics. As a result, the modulated PCNs with optimized structures show a greatly enriched activity for photocatalytic H2 generation compared to the analogous materials derived from melamine without the modifier.
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- Ling Yin
- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350002, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350002, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350002, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350002, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350002, P.R. China
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Fang Y, Li X, Wang X. Phosphorylation of Polymeric Carbon Nitride Photoanodes with Increased Surface Valence Electrons for Solar Water Splitting. CHEMSUSCHEM 2019; 12:2605-2608. [PMID: 30773848 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201900291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2019] [Revised: 02/13/2019] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Overcoming the sluggish kinetics of the water oxidation is the key to a high performance for solar water splitting. Herein, phosphorylated polymeric carbon nitride (PCN) photoanodes were developed and showed enhanced photocurrent densities for solar water splitting. A photocatalytic efficiency of 120 μA cm-2 was achieved in the basic solution (1.0 m NaOH) without sacrificial agents. In this system, phosphates were ionically anchored on the surface of PCN, and the modified films showed significantly increased density of valence electrons, and thus promoting photocatalytic efficiency.
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- Yuanxing Fang
- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, P.R. China
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Reddy KR, Reddy CV, Nadagouda MN, Shetti NP, Jaesool S, Aminabhavi TM. Polymeric graphitic carbon nitride (g-C 3N 4)-based semiconducting nanostructured materials: Synthesis methods, properties and photocatalytic applications. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2019; 238:25-40. [PMID: 30844543 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.02.075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2019] [Revised: 02/12/2019] [Accepted: 02/16/2019] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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In recent years, various facile and low-cost methods have been developed for the synthesis of advanced nanostructured photocatalytic materials. These catalysts are required to mitigate the energy crisis, environmental deterioration, including water and air pollution. Among the various semiconductors explored, recently novel classes of polymeric graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4)-based heterogeneous photocatalysts have established much greater importance because of their unique physiochemical properties, large surface area, low price, and long service life, ease of synthesis, product scalability, controllable band gap properties, low toxicity, and high photocatalytic activity. The present comprehensive review focuses on recent achievements in a number of facile chemical synthesis methods for semiconducting polymeric carbon nitrides and their heterogeneous nanohybrids with various dopants, nanostructured metals, metal oxides, and nanocarbons, as well as the parameters influencing their physiochemical properties and photocatalytic efficiency, which are discussed with reference to various catalytic applications such as air (NOx) purification, wastewater treatment, hydrogen generation, CO2 reduction, and chemical transformation. The mechanisms for the superior photocatalytic activity of polymeric g-C3N4-based heterogeneous photocatalysts are also discussed. Finally, the challenges, prospects, and future directions for photocatalytic polymeric g-C3N4-based semiconducting materials are described.
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- Kakarla Raghava Reddy
- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, 712-749, South Korea
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- Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45324, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, K. L. E. Institute of Technology, Gokul, Hubballi, 580030, Affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka, India
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, 712-749, South Korea.
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Li B, Si Y, Zhou BX, Fang Q, Li YY, Huang WQ, Hu W, Pan A, Fan X, Huang GF. Doping-Induced Hydrogen-Bond Engineering in Polymeric Carbon Nitride To Significantly Boost the Photocatalytic H 2 Evolution Performance. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:17341-17349. [PMID: 30964629 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b22366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Unlike graphene, graphitic carbon nitride (CN) polymer contains a weak hydrogen bond and van der Waals (vdWs) interactions besides a strong covalent bond, which controls its final morphology and functionality. Herein, we propose a novel strategy, hydrogen-bond engineering, to tune hydrogen bonds in polymeric CN through nonmetal codoping. Incorporation of B and P dopants breaks partial hydrogen bonds within the layers and simultaneously weakens the vdWs interaction between neighboring layers, resulting in ultrathin codoped CN nanosheets. The two-dimensional structure of the ultrathin sheet, broken hydrogen bonds, and incorporated dopants endow them with efficient visible light harvesting, improved charge separation, and increased active edge sites that synergistically enhance the photocatalytic activity of doped CN. Specifically, the B/P-codoped CN exhibits an extremely high hydrogen-evolution rate of 10877.40 μmol h-1 g-1, much higher than most reported values of CN. This work demonstrates that hydrogen bond engineering is an effective strategy to modify the structure and properties of polymers for various applications.
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- Bo Li
- Department of Applied Physics, School of Physics and Electronics, and School of Materials Science and Engineering , Hunan University , Changsha , Hunan 410082 , China
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- Department of Applied Physics, School of Physics and Electronics, and School of Materials Science and Engineering , Hunan University , Changsha , Hunan 410082 , China
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- Department of Applied Physics, School of Physics and Electronics, and School of Materials Science and Engineering , Hunan University , Changsha , Hunan 410082 , China
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- Department of Applied Physics, School of Physics and Electronics, and School of Materials Science and Engineering , Hunan University , Changsha , Hunan 410082 , China
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- Department of Applied Physics, School of Physics and Electronics, and School of Materials Science and Engineering , Hunan University , Changsha , Hunan 410082 , China
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- Department of Applied Physics, School of Physics and Electronics, and School of Materials Science and Engineering , Hunan University , Changsha , Hunan 410082 , China
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- Department of Applied Physics, School of Physics and Electronics, and School of Materials Science and Engineering , Hunan University , Changsha , Hunan 410082 , China
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- Department of Applied Physics, School of Physics and Electronics, and School of Materials Science and Engineering , Hunan University , Changsha , Hunan 410082 , China
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- School of Physics , Liaoning University , Shenyang 110036 , China
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- Department of Applied Physics, School of Physics and Electronics, and School of Materials Science and Engineering , Hunan University , Changsha , Hunan 410082 , China
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Pan Z, Niu P, Hou Y, Fang Y, Liu M, Wang X. LiCl as Phase-Transfer Catalysts to Synthesize Thin Co 2 P Nanosheets for Oxygen Evolution Reaction. CHEMSUSCHEM 2019; 12:1911-1915. [PMID: 30117677 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201801691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2018] [Revised: 08/15/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Inorganic salts have been widely studied as templates for the synthesis of 2D layer structures. However, these salts normally can only serve as templates without any catalytic activity. Here, we report that LiCl used for the synthesis of ultrathin nanosheets not only serves as template for the synthesis of ultrathin Co2 P nanosheets with a thickness of 0.7 nm but also acts as a catalyst that induces the phase-transfer from CoP to Co2 P. The Co2 P nanosheets have a high electrochemical performance for oxygen evolution reaction.
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- Zhiming Pan
- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350002, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350002, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350002, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350002, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350002, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350002, P. R. China
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Wang W, Zhao X, Cao Y, Yan Z, Zhu R, Tao Y, Chen X, Zhang D, Li G, Phillips DL. Copper Phosphide-Enhanced Lower Charge Trapping Occurrence in Graphitic-C 3N 4 for Efficient Noble-Metal-Free Photocatalytic H 2 Evolution. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:16527-16537. [PMID: 30990659 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b01421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) fundamental photophysical processes exhibit a high frequency of charge trapping due to physicochemical defects. In this study, a copper phosphide (Cu3P) and g-C3N4 hybrid was synthesized via a facile phosphorization method. Cu3P, as an electron acceptor, efficiently captures the photogenerated electrons and drastically improved the charge separation rate to cause a significantly enhanced photocatalytic performance. Moreover, the robust and intimate chemical interactions between Cu3P and g-C3N4 offers a rectified charge-transfer channel that can lead to a higher H2 evolution rate (HRE, 277.2 μmol h-1 g-1) for this hybrid that is up to 370 times greater than that achieved from using bare g-C3N4 (HRE, 0.75 μmol h-1 g-1) with a quantum efficiency of 3.74% under visible light irradiation (λ = 420 nm). To better determine the photophysical characteristics of the Cu3P-induced charge antitrapping behavior, ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy measurements were used to investigate the charge carriers' dynamics from femtosecond to nanosecond time domains. The experimental results clearly revealed that Cu3P can effectively enhance charge transfer and suppress photoelectron-hole recombination.
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- Wenchao Wang
- The Education Ministry Key and International Joint Lab of Resource Chemistry, Shanghai Key Lab of Rare Earth Functional Materials , Shanghai Normal University , Shanghai 200234 , China
- Department of Chemistry , The University of Hong Kong , Pokfulam Road , Hong Kong , China
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- The Education Ministry Key and International Joint Lab of Resource Chemistry, Shanghai Key Lab of Rare Earth Functional Materials , Shanghai Normal University , Shanghai 200234 , China
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- The Education Ministry Key and International Joint Lab of Resource Chemistry, Shanghai Key Lab of Rare Earth Functional Materials , Shanghai Normal University , Shanghai 200234 , China
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- Department of Chemistry , The University of Hong Kong , Pokfulam Road , Hong Kong , China
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- Department of Chemistry , The University of Hong Kong , Pokfulam Road , Hong Kong , China
- School of Physical Science and Technology , Shanghai Tech University , Shanghai 201210 , China
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- The Education Ministry Key and International Joint Lab of Resource Chemistry, Shanghai Key Lab of Rare Earth Functional Materials , Shanghai Normal University , Shanghai 200234 , China
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- The Education Ministry Key and International Joint Lab of Resource Chemistry, Shanghai Key Lab of Rare Earth Functional Materials , Shanghai Normal University , Shanghai 200234 , China
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- The Education Ministry Key and International Joint Lab of Resource Chemistry, Shanghai Key Lab of Rare Earth Functional Materials , Shanghai Normal University , Shanghai 200234 , China
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- The Education Ministry Key and International Joint Lab of Resource Chemistry, Shanghai Key Lab of Rare Earth Functional Materials , Shanghai Normal University , Shanghai 200234 , China
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- Department of Chemistry , The University of Hong Kong , Pokfulam Road , Hong Kong , China
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