Controlling Monomer Feeding Rate to Achieve Highly Crystalline Covalent Triazine Frameworks
Manying Liu1, Kai Jiang2, Xing Ding2
1Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Luoyu Road No. 1037, 430074, Wuhan, P. R. China.
Abstract:
The synthesis of highly crystalline covalent triazine frameworks (CTFs) with ultrastrong covalent bonds (aromatic CN) from the triazine linkage presents a great challenge to synthetic chemists. Herein, the synthesis of highly crystalline CTFs via directly controlling the monomer feeding rate is reported. By tuning the feeding rate of monomers, the crystallization process can be readily governed in a controlled manner in an open system. The sample of CTF-HUST-HC1 with abundant exposed {001} crystal facets has the better crystallinity and thus is selected to study the effect of high crystallinity on photoelectric properties. Owing to the better separation of photogenerated electron-hole pairs and charge transfer, the obtained highly ordered CTF-HUST-HC1 has superior performance in the photocatalytic removal of nitric oxide (NO) than its lesser crystalline counterparts and g-C3 N4 .
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