Graphitic Carbon Nitride with Dopant Induced Charge Localization for Enhanced Photoreduction of CO₂ to CH₄.

ABSTRACT: The photoreduction of CO₂ to hydrocarbon products has attracted much attention because it provides an avenue to directly synthesize value-added carbon-based fuels and feedstocks using solar energy. Among various photocatalysts, graphitic carbon nitride (g-C₃N₄) has emerged as an attractive metal-free visible-light photocatalyst due to its advantages of earth-abundance, nontoxicity, and stability. Unfortunately, its photocatalytic efficiency is seriously limited by charge carriers' ready recombination and their low reaction dynamics. Modifying the local electronic structure of g-C₃N₄ is predicted to be an efficient way to improve the charge transfer and reaction efficiency. Here, boron (B) is doped into the large cavity between adjacent

SUBMITTER: Fu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6755511 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature