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JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS
Volume 352, Issue -, Pages 491-497Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2017.06.020
Keywords
Ultrathin nanosheets; Graphitic carbon nitride; Electron transport; Solar hydrogen conversion
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51672210, 51323011, 51236007]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET-13-0455]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province [2014KW07-02]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20141212]
- Nano Research Program of Suzhou City [ZXG201442]
- Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China [201335]
- National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) [101-2112-M-213-004-MY3]
- Shenzhen Peacock Plan [1208040050847074]
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Two-dimensional graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) nanosheets (CNNS) have attracted intense interest in photocatalysis, given their small thickness and high specific surface area favoring charge transfer and surface reactions. Herein, a facile strategy of breaking and following repolymerizing the heptazine units in bulk g-C3N4 (BCN) is developed to synthesize ultrathin CNNS with thickness of 1 nm in relatively high product yield (similar to 24%). The as-prepared 1 nm-thick CNNS show significantly enhanced photocatalytic performance for hydrogen evolution than BCN and even the 3 nm-thick CNNS acquired by thermal oxidation etching of BCN. It is evidenced that the disordered layer structure of the obtained ultrathin CNNS causes strong interlayer C-N interaction, tunneling electron transport between the C-N layers. Meanwhile, the broken in-plane C-N bonds create more unsaturated N sites in the 1 nm-thick CNNS, facilitating the electron excitation from the occupied states in g-C3N4 to its unoccupied states for water reduction reaction. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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