Current understanding and challenges of solar-driven hydrogen generation using polymeric photocatalysts

Y Wang, A Vogel, M Sachs, RS Sprick, L Wilbraham… - Nature Energy, 2019 - nature.com
The use of hydrogen as a fuel, when generated from water using semiconductor
photocatalysts and driven by sunlight, is a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. Polymeric …

A tour‐guide through carbon nitride‐land: structure‐and dimensionality‐dependent properties for photo (electro) chemical energy conversion and storage

VW Lau, BV Lotsch - Advanced Energy Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the explosion in the number of publications on the graphitic carbon nitride family of
materials, much still remains unknown about their structure and the underlying properties …

Carbon Nitride Photocatalysts with Integrated Oxidation and Reduction Atomic Active Centers for Improved CO2 Conversion

H Ou, S Ning, P Zhu, S Chen, A Han… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐atom active‐site catalysts have attracted significant attention in the field of
photocatalytic CO2 conversion. However, designing active sites for CO2 reduction and H2O …

Enhanced photocatalytic H2 production independent of exciton dissociation in crystalline carbon nitride

G Zhang, Y Xu, J Zhu, Y Li, C He, X Ren… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2023 - Elsevier
The role of exciton dissociation in charge separation dominated by in-plane crystallinity has
been rarely addressed, although it is the decisive step of polymeric carbon nitride (CN) …

Interfacial engineering for improved photocatalysis in a charge storing 2D carbon nitride: melamine functionalized poly (heptazine imide)

J Kröger, A Jiménez‐Solano, G Savasci… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon nitrides constitute a class of earth‐abundant polymeric semiconductors, which have
high potential for tunability on a molecular level, despite their high chemical and thermal …

State of the Art in the Preparation and Properties of Molecular Monomeric s-Heptazines: Syntheses, Characteristics, and Functional Applications

P Audebert, E Kroke, C Posern, SH Lee - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
This review gives an account on the fast expanding field of monomeric (or molecular)
heptazines, at the exclusion of their various polymeric forms, often referred to as carbon …

Design, modification and application of semiconductor photocatalysts

L Wang, J Zhao, H Liu, J Huang - Journal of the Taiwan Institute of …, 2018 - Elsevier
The utilization of solar energy is promising in chemical and environmental engineering.
Photocatalytic process is applicable for some thermodynamically forbidden reaction such as …

In situ growth of CdS quantum dots on phosphorus-doped carbon nitride hollow tubes as active 0D/1D heterostructures for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

Q Liang, C Zhang, S Xu, M Zhou, Y Zhou, Z Li - Journal of Colloid and …, 2020 - Elsevier
CdS quantum dots (QDs) were decorated onto phosphorus-doped hexagonal gC 3 N 4 tube
(P-CNT) to form a novel high-preformance photocatalyst (CdS QDs/P-CNT) via an in-situ oil …

Ultrathin Assembles of Porous Array for Enhanced H2 Evolution

A Islam, S Hwa Teo, MR Awual, YH Taufiq-Yap - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Since the complexity of photocatalyst synthesis process and high cost of noble cocatalyst
leftovers a major hurdle to producing hydrogen (H2) from water, a noble metal-free Ni …

K+-induced crystallization of polymeric carbon nitride to boost its photocatalytic activity for H2 evolution and hydrogenation of alkenes

Y Xu, C Qiu, X Fan, Y **ao, G Zhang, K Yu, H Ju… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2020 - Elsevier
Crystalline semiconductors with ordered long-range structure and minimized phase defect
are capable of efficient separation and diffusion of photoexcited charge carriers, which is …