Environmentally sustainable biogenic fabrication of AuNP decorated-graphitic g-C₃N₄ nanostructures towards improved photoelectrochemical performances.

ABSTRACT: Noble-metal gold (Au) nanoparticles (NPs) anchored/decorated on polymeric graphitic carbon nitride (g-C₃N₄), as a nanostructure, was fabricated by a simple, single step, and an environmentally friendly synthesis approach using single-strain-developed biofilm as a reducing tool. The well deposited/anchored AuNPs on the sheet-like structure of g-C₃N₄ exhibited high photoelectrochemical performance under visible-light irradiation. The Au-g-C₃N₄ nanostructures behaved as a plasmonic material. The nanostructures were analyzed using standard characterization techniques. The effect of AuNPs deposition on the photoelectrochemical performance of the Au-g-C₃N₄ nanostructures was examined by linear sweep voltammet

SUBMITTER: Khan ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9079820 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature