Journal
JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 468, Issue -, Pages 103-109Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2016.01.044
Keywords
g-C3N4; Colloid; Alkali treatment; Dispersion-flocculation; Photocatalysis
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- program of Graduate Innovation Research in ZSTU [YCX13001]
- National Undergraduate Training Program for Innovation and Entrepreneurship [201510338021]
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The colloid of graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) was of great importance for practical application. Herein we introduced an alkali treatment route to efficiently colloidize g-C3N4 under mild conditions by destroying the hydrogen bonds between linearly polymeric melon chains and hydrolyzing partial C-NH-C bonds linked two tri-s-triazine units. The obtained colloidal suspension was extremely stable due to its negative charges on surface, and the particle size of several hundred nanometers and the nanobelt-like morphology were revealed by electron microscopy and dynamic light scattering technologies. The structural, optical and functional group analysis demonstrated that the structure of CN heterocycles was preserved after the alkali treatment, and the produced colloidal g-C3N4 can be re-assembled by an electrostatic interaction. Moreover, contributing to the reduced electron-hole recombination, the photo catalytic performance of restacked carbon nitride colloids had more enhanced photocatalytic performance than bulk g-C3N4. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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