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Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles Supported on Carbon Nanotube with Doped Co and N Atoms and its Catalytic Applications in Hydrogen Production
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Exfoliated graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets as efficient catalysts for hydrogen evolution under visible light
Shubin Yang1, Yongji Gong, Jinshui Zhang
1Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA. sy13@rice.edu
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|March 2, 2013
Abstract:
Graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets are extracted, produced via simple liquid-phase exfoliation of a layered bulk material, g-C3N4. The resulting nanosheets, having ≈2 nm thickness and N/C atomic ratio of 1.31, show an optical bandgap of 2.65 eV. The carbon nitride nanosheets are demonstrated to exhibit excellent photocatalytic activity for hydrogen evolution under visible light.

