Journal
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 55, Issue 47, Pages 14693-14697Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201608453
Keywords
graphitic carbon nitride; microwave-assisted thermolysis; photocatalysis; supramolecular aggregates; water splitting
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51572003]
- Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation [1508085ME105, 1408085MB22]
- SRF for ROCS, SEM
- Technology Foundation for Selected Overseas Chinese Scholar, Ministry of Personnel of China
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Highly crystalline graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) with decreased structural imperfections benefits from the suppression of electron-hole recombination, which enhances its hydrogen generation activity. However, producing such g-C3N4 materials by conventional heating in an electric furnace has proven challenging. Herein, we report on the synthesis of high-quality g-C3N4 with reduced structural defects by judiciously combining the implementation of melamine-cyanuric acid (MCA) supramolecular aggregates and microwaveassisted thermolysis. The g-C3N4 material produced after optimizing the microwave reaction time can effectively generate H-2 under visible-light irradiation. The highest H-2 evolution rate achieved was 40.5 mu mol h(-1), which is two times higher than that of a g-C3N4 sample prepared by thermal polycondensation of the same supramolecular aggregates in an electric furnace. The microwave-assisted thermolysis strategy is simple, rapid, and robust, thereby providing a promising route for the synthesis of high-efficiency g-C3N4 photocatalysts.
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