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Published on: April 10, 2019
Self-regenerated solar-driven photocatalytic water-splitting by urea derived graphitic carbon nitride with platinum
Jinghai Liu1, Yuewei Zhang, Luhua Lu
1i-Lab, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215123, PR China.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 28, 2012
Abstract:
A natural self-regeneration step for urea derived graphitic carbon nitride with platinum nanoparticles is found by simply opening the system to air in the dark under ambient conditions, following its solar-driven hydrogen production. The produced peroxides deactivate the graphitic carbon nitride. Release of weakly bound peroxides on the polymeric semiconductor surface is a crucial process for regeneration.
