Issue 27, 2015
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Switching the photocatalytic activity of g-C3N4 by homogenous surface chemical modification with nitrogen residues and vacancies†

Xue Lu Wang,ab   Wen Qi Fang,a   Yefeng Yao,c   Porun Liu,b   Yun Wang,b   Haimin Zhang,b   Huijun Zhao*b  and  Hua Gui Yang*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Material of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
E-mail: hgyang@ecust.edu.cn
Fax: +86-21-64252127
Tel: +86-21-64252127

b Centre for Clean Environment and Energy, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
E-mail: h.zhao@griffith.edu.au

c Physics Department, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Tesonance, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Abstract

A facile two-step homogenous approach is established to produce and control the nitrogen vacancies on g-C3N4 photocatalysts. The g-C3N4 undergoes a solvothermal N2H4·H2O reduction inactivation and subsequent thermal reduction process to reactivate and achieve an enhanced photocatalytic activity toward hydrogen evolution.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5RA00150A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 Jan 2015
Accepted
17 Feb 2015
First published
17 Feb 2015

RSC Adv., 2015,5, 21430-21433

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Switching the photocatalytic activity of g-C3N4 by homogenous surface chemical modification with nitrogen residues and vacancies

X. L. Wang, W. Q. Fang, Y. Yao, P. Liu, Y. Wang, H. Zhang, H. Zhao and H. G. Yang, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 21430 DOI: 10.1039/C5RA00150A

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