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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 396, Issue -, Pages 78-84Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2016.10.190
Keywords
Graphitic carbon nitride; Mesoporous; Photocatalytic
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- State Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China [21236008, 21306018]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [DUT16LK12]
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Ordered mesoporous graphitic carbon nitrides were prepared by directly condensing the uniform mixtures of melamine and KIT-6. After removal of the KIT-6 sacrificial template, the carbon nitrides were characterized with TEM, N-2 physical adsorption, XRD, FT-IR, XPS, UV-vis and PL spectrometries, and tested for their RhB photocatalytic degradation activity. Together, these characterizations confirmed the as-prepared tunable mesoporous materials with enhanced charge separation efficiency and superior photocatalytic performance. Compared with a conventional bulk g-C3N4, ordered mesoporous g-C3N4 exhibits a larger specific surface area of 279.3 m(/)(2)g and a pore size distribution about 4.0 nm and 13.0 nm. Meanwhile, the reduced bandgap energy of 2.77 eV and lower photogenerated electron-hole pair recombination frequency were evidenced by UV-Vis and PL spectra. The RhB photocatalytic degradation activity maximizes with a mass ratio of KIT-6/melamine of 80% (KCN80), and the kinetic constant reaches 0.0760 min(-1) which is 16 times higher than that of the bulk sample. Reusability of KCN80 was demonstrated by a lack of evident deactivation after three consecutive reaction periods. The direct condensation of the KIT-6 and melamine mixture does not require pre-casting of the precursor into the pore system of the templates. Owing to its high product yield, improved S-BET, reduced bandgap energy and limited charge recombination, the facile-prepared ordered mesoporous g-C3N4 is a practical candidate for further modification. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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