Graphene and Graphene-Like Carbon Nitride for Advanced Catalytic Capability
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalytic Materials".
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Dear Colleagues,
Graphene and graphene-like carbon nitride is good support for composite materials. For example, a graphene composite has been developed for the photodegradation of pollutants, showing good electrochemical properties and strong optoelectronic properties, which indicates that graphene-based materials have improved performance. At the same time, graphene-like carbon nitride (g-C3N4) has also risen as a new catalytic material, owing to its cheap production, excellent chemothermal properties, and environmentally friendly nature. Furthermore, its optical and electronic properties make it a promising photocatalyst for solar energy harvesting. g-C3N4 has been extensively used for the degradation of pollutants, hydrogen and oxygen evolution, water splitting, and carbon dioxide reduction. Therefore, due to their conductive and catalytic behaviors, graphene and graphene-like carbon nitride appear to be strong composite candidates. Still, the improvements in these materials’ efficiency can be achieved using various changes, such as doping with metal, non-metal, and composite with other semiconductors, and also changing their morphology. Heterojunction between graphene and graphene-like carbon nitride is also established. Studies of advanced properties of prepared material, with insight into photochemical and photo-degradation properties, are encourages.
Dr. Tahir Muhmood
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Keywords
- graphene
- graphitic carbon nitride
- catalytic
- composite material
- hetero-junctions
