The role of hydrogen bonding on enhancement of photocatalytic activity of the acidified graphitic carbon nitride for hydrogen evolution

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 409-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng-Qun Xu ◽  
Yong-Hao Xiao ◽  
Yu-Xiang Yu ◽  
Wei-De Zhang
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 2318-2324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiawei Xue ◽  
Mamoru Fujitsuka ◽  
Tetsuro Majima

Extending the light absorption range of g-C3N4 by introducing N defects may be accompanied by some negative factors for the photocatalytic activity.


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (124) ◽  
pp. 102700-102706 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhijun Huang ◽  
Fengbo Li ◽  
Bingfeng Chen ◽  
Guoqing Yuan

Porous and low-defected g-C3N4 nanotubes with high SBET and optimized optical and electronic properties exhibit enhanced photocatalytic activity.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (18) ◽  
pp. 11506-11512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Xiang Fang ◽  
Liu-Bo Ma ◽  
Kuang Liang ◽  
Sheng-Jie Zhao ◽  
Yi-Fan Jiang ◽  
...  

The introduction of phosphorus atoms, as an electron donor, effectively enhance the photocatalytic activity.


2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (19) ◽  
pp. 16005-16012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunpeng Bai ◽  
Jingce Bi ◽  
Junbiao Wu ◽  
Yide Han ◽  
Xia Zhang

A semiconductor heterojunction composed of silver cyanamide (Ag2NCN) and graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) exhibited excellent photocatalytic activity for hydrogen evolution under simulated sunlight irradiation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunyan Wu ◽  
Pan Xiong ◽  
Jianchun Wu ◽  
Zengliang Huang ◽  
Jingwen Sun ◽  
...  

AbstractGraphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4)-based photocatalysts have shown great potential in the splitting of water. However, the intrinsic drawbacks of g-C3N4, such as low surface area, poor diffusion, and charge separation efficiency, remain as the bottleneck to achieve highly efficient hydrogen evolution. Here, a hollow oxygen-incorporated g-C3N4 nanosheet (OCN) with an improved surface area of 148.5 m2 g−1 is fabricated by the multiple thermal treatments under the N2/O2 atmosphere, wherein the C–O bonds are formed through two ways of physical adsorption and doping. The physical characterization and theoretical calculation indicate that the O-adsorption can promote the generation of defects, leading to the formation of hollow morphology, while the O-doping results in reduced band gap of g-C3N4. The optimized OCN shows an excellent photocatalytic hydrogen evolution activity of 3519.6 μmol g−1 h−1 for ~ 20 h, which is over four times higher than that of g-C3N4 (850.1 μmol g−1 h−1) and outperforms most of the reported g-C3N4 catalysts.


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