Triazoles: A New Class of Precursors for the Synthesis of Negatively Charged Carbon Nitride Derivatives

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 5170-5179

  Dontsova, Dariya ^a   Pronkin, Sergey ^b   Wehle, Marko ^a   Chen, Zupeng ^a   Fettkenhauer, Christian ^a   Clavel, Guylhaine ^a   Antonietti, Markus ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ENERGY GAP; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NITRIDES; PHOTODEGRADATION; POLYANILINE; POLYMERS;

DEGREE OF CRYSTALLINITY; GRAPHITIC CARBON NITRIDES; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; NEGATIVELY CHARGED; REFERENCE MATERIAL; STRUCTURAL MODELING; VISIBLE LIGHT ABSORPTION; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION;

CARBON NITRIDE;

EID: 84938869796     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00812     Document Type: Article

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