articleAdvanced Functional MaterialsOct 15, 2015Closed access

Holey Graphitic Carbon Nitride Nanosheets with Carbon Vacancies for Highly Improved Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production

Chinese Academy of Sciences · University Town of Shenzhen · +4 more institutions

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Abstract

2D graphitic carbon nitride (GCN) nanosheets have attracted tremendous attention in photocatalysis due to their many intriguing properties. However, the photocatalytic performance of GCN nanosheets is still restricted by the limited active sites and the serious aggregation during the photocatalytic process. Herein, a simple approach to produce holey GCN (HGCN) nanosheets with abundant in‐plane holes by thermally treating bulk GCN (BGCN) under an NH 3 atmosphere is reported. These formed in‐plane holes not only endow GCN nanosheets with more exposed active edges and cross‐plane diffusion channels that greatly speed up mass and photogenerated charge transfer, but also provide numerous boundaries and thus…

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