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MATERIALS RESEARCH BULLETIN
Volume 163, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.materresbull.2023.112210
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L-ascorbic acid; Nanowires; One-dimensional material; Photocatalytic water splitting; Graphitic carbon nitride
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A sustainable approach to fabricate one-dimensional graphitic carbon nitride (gCN) for photocatalytic hydrogen generation is reported. This approach involves the modification of two-dimensional gCN with L-ascorbic acid, leading to the formation of a one-dimensional structure. The resulting gCN_1D exhibits significantly enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen generation compared to bulk-gCN and exfoliated gCN.
In this contribution, a sustainable approach to fabricate one-dimensional (1D) graphitic carbon nitride (gCN) for photocatalytic hydrogen generation is reported. The strategy was based on L-ascorbic acid (LAA) modification of two-dimensional (2D) gCN leading to the formation of a 1D structure. The resultant gCN_1D exhibits an increased photocatalytic hydrogen generation rate of similar to 18-fold and 4-fold with respect to 2D bulk-gCN and exfoliated gCN (ex-gCN), respectively. The photocatalytic mechanism of hydrogen evolution from water splitting was proposed based on a detailed physiochemical investigation of the catalyst prior and after the process. The enhanced photocatalytic H2 generation of the gCN_1D is achieved due to enhanced light harvesting, the better position of valance and conduction bands, higher porosity, faster transfer and charge separation of photogenerated carriers, and lower recombination rate resulting from 1D nanostructure. Additionally, promoted stability is assigned to the formation of an additional phase of the CN4O8 during the photocatalytic process.
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