Journal
GREEN CHEMISTRY
Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 509-517Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4gc01683a
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51102194, 51323011, 51121092]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province [2014KW07-02]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20141212]
- Nano Research Program of Suzhou City [ZXG201442, ZXG2013003]
- Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China [201335]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
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Nitrogen-doped CeOx nanoparticles (N-CeOx NPs) were directly formed on graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) via a facile one-pot method by annealing a mixture of Ce(NO3)(3) and melamine as CeOx and g-C3N4 precursors, respectively. Nitrogen was in situ doped into CeOx under NH3 atmosphere released by the decomposition of melamine during the annealing process. The physical and photophysical properties of N-CeOx NPs modified g-C3N4 photocatalysts were investigated to reveal the effects of N-CeOx NPs on the photocatalytic activities of g-C3N4. It was found that the one-pot annealing method was favorable for forming intimate interfacial contact between N-CeOx and g-C3N4. The visible light photocatalytic hydrogen production activity over g-C3N4 was enhanced by ca. 1.2 times with the N-CeOx NPs modification. The significant enhancement in photocatalytic performance for the N-CeOx/g-C3N4 heterojunction should be mainly because of the promoted charge transfer and charge separation between N-CeOx NPs and g-C3N4 resulting from the intimate interfacial contact and Type II band alignment. In addition, the improved visible light absorption of N-CeOx NPs induced by nitrogen doping could be another reason for the enhanced photocatalytic activity of the N-CeOx/g-C3N4 heterojunction.
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