Formation of an ion-free crystalline carbon nitride and its reversible intercalation with ionic species and molecular water.

ABSTRACT: The development of processes to tune the properties of materials is essential for the progression of next-generation technologies for catalysis, optoelectronics and sustainability including energy harvesting and conversion. Layered carbon nitrides have also been identified as of significant interest within these fields of application. However, most carbon nitride materials studied to date have poor crystallinity and therefore their properties cannot be readily controlled or easily related to their molecular level or nanoscale structures. Here we report a process for forming a range of crystalline layered carbon nitrides with polytriazine imide (PTI) structures that can be interconverted by simple ion exchange processes, permitting the tunability of their optoelectronic and chemical propert

SUBMITTER: Suter TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6385848 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature