Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Unraveling fundamental active units in carbon nitride for photocatalytic oxidation reactions

  • Chaofeng Huang,
  • Yaping Wen,
  • Jin Ma,
  • Dandan Dong,
  • Yanfei Shen,
  • Songqin Liu,
  • Haibo Ma,
  • Yuanjian Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20521-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The acquisition of critical roles of each molecular constituent in carbon nitrides for photocatalysis remains elusive. Here the authors synthesize carbon nitrides with distinguishable units and reveal the roles of the different units in light absorption and charge separation.