Photocatalytic Activity of Mesoporous Graphitic Carbon Nitride (mpg-C3N4) Towards Organic Chromophores Under UV and VIS Light Illumination

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2016-09-01

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Altunöz Erdoğan, Deniz
SEVİM, Melike
Kisa, Ezgi
Emiroglu, Dilara Borte
Karatok, Mustafa
Vovk, Evgeny I.
Bjerring, Morten
Akbey, Umit
Metin, Onder
Ozensoy, Emrah

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A template-assisted synthetic method including the thermal polycondensation of guanidine hydrochloride (GndCl) was utilized to synthesize highly-organized mesoporous graphitic carbon nitride (mpg-C3N4) photocatalysts. Comprehensive structural analysis of the mpg-C3N4 materials were performed by XPS, XRD, FT-IR, BET and solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Photocatalytic performance of the mpg-C3N4 materials was studied for the photodegradation of several dyes under visible and UV light illumination as a function of catalyst loading and the structure of mpg-C3N4 depending on the polycondensation temperature. Among all of the formerly reported performances in the literature (including the ones for Degussa P25 commercial benchmark), currently synthesized mpg-C3N4 photocatalysts exhibit a significantly superior visible light-induced photocatalytic activity towards rhodamine B (RhB) dye. Enhanced catalytic efficiency could be mainly attributed to the terminated polycondensation process, high specific surface area, and mesoporous structure with a wide pore size distribution.

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Graphitic-C3N4, Carbon nitride, UV-Vis light, Photocatalytic degradation, Organic dye

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/49051

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TOPICS IN CATALYSIS

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11244-016-0654-3

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D. Altunöz Erdoğan et al., “Photocatalytic Activity of Mesoporous Graphitic Carbon Nitride (mpg-C3N4) Towards Organic Chromophores Under UV and VIS Light Illumination,” TOPICS IN CATALYSIS, pp. 1305–1318, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/49051.