Post-Calcined Carbon Nitride Nanosheets as an Efficient Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Production under Visible Light Irradiation

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 213-220

  Gholipour, Mohammad Reza ^a   Béland, Francois ^b   Do, Trong On ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b SiliCycle Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Graphitic carbon nitride; High quantum efficiency photocatalyst; Photocatalyst hydrogen production; Visible light photocatalyst

Indexed keywords

CALCINATION; CARBON NITRIDE; CHEMICAL STABILITY; ENERGY GAP; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOSHEETS; NARROW BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; NITRIDES; PHOTOCATALYSTS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; STABILITY CRITERIA;

GRAPHITIC CARBON NITRIDES; HIGH QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; LARGE SPECIFIC SURFACE AREAS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC WATER SPLITTING; VISIBLE LIGHT ABSORPTION; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION; VISIBLE-LIGHT PHOTOCATALYSTS;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 85008478233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.6b01282     Document Type: Article

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