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Progress in Chemistry 2014, Vol. 26 Issue (01): 19-29 DOI: 10.7536/PC130519 Previous Articles   Next Articles

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Carbon Nitride Polymeric Semiconductor for Photocatalysis

Zhang Jinshui, Wang Bo, Wang Xinchen*   

  1. Research Institute of Photocatalysis, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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    The work was supported by the State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China (No. 2013CB632405) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21033003, 21173043, J1103303)

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Semiconductor photocatalysis via sunlight-driven photoredox reactions to directly convert solar energy into chemical energy or to mineralize organic pollutants, is regarded as a long-term solution to address the global energy and environmental problems. Recently, graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4), a polymeric semiconductor has been widely used as a low-cost, stable and metal-free visible-light-active photocatalyst in the sustainable utilization of solar energy, such as water splitting, organic photosynthesis and environmental remediation. This has attracted worldwide attention from energy and environmental relative fields. In this review, some recent advances in g-C3N4 photocatalysis are present, including the theoretical research of chemical structure and features of g-C3N4, metal/non-mental doping of g-C3N4 to adjust the semiconductive electronic band structure, soft/hard templates assisted the synthesis of g-C3N4 nanoarchictures, surface modification of g-C3N4 to overcome the high kinetic barrier for water reduction/oxidation, and as well as the construction of g-C3N4 based heterojunctions and composite photocatalysts to promote the separation of energy-wasteful charge recombination. The prospects for the development of highly efficient g-C3N4 based photocatalysts are also discussed.

Contents
1 Introduction
2 Mechanism study of g-C3N4 photocatalyst
2.1 Semiconductive band structure of g-C3N4
2.2 Photocatalytic performance of g-C3N4
3 Development of g-C3N4 photocatalyst
3.1 Theoretical calculation of g-C3N4 photocatalyst
3.2 Synthesis optimization of g-C3N4 photocatalyst
3.3 Nanostructuring g-C3N4 photocatalyst
3.4 Synthesis of g-C3N4 photocatalyst by copolymeri-zation
3.5 Semiconductor doping of g-C3N4 photocatalyst
3.6 Surface modification of g-C3N4 photocatalyst
3.7 Sensitization of g-C3N4 photocatalyst
3.8 g-C3N4 based composite photocatalysts
4 Conclusion and outlook

Key words: solar energy, photocatalysis, polymeric semiconductor, graphitic carbon nitride

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