Journal
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Volume 5, Issue 5, Pages 6717-6731Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2ee03479d
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- Australian Research Council (ARC) [DP1095861, DP1094070, DP0987969]
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- Australian Research Council [DP1094070] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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Graphitic carbon nitrides (g-C3N4) are becoming increasingly significant due to the theoretical prediction of their unusual properties and promising applications ranging from photocatalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, to fuel cells. Recently, a variety of nanostructured and nanoporous g-C3N4 materials have been developed for a wide range of new applications. This feature article gives, at first, an overview on the synthesis of g-C3N4 nanomaterials with controllable structure and morphology, and secondly, presents and categorizes applications of g-C3N4 as multifunctional metal-free catalysts for environmental protection, energy conversion and storage. A special emphasis is placed on the potential applications of nanostructured g-C3N4 in the areas of artificial photocatalysis for hydrogen production, oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) for fuel cells, and metal-free heterogeneous catalysis. Finally, this perspective highlights crucial issues that should be addressed in the future in the aforementioned exciting research areas.
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