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Very recently, it has been shown that an abundant material, polymeric carbon nitride, can produce hydrogen from water under visible-light irradiation in the presence of a sacrificial donor [1]. We will present here the preparation and…
Since hydrogen fuel involves the highest energy density among all fuels, production of this gas through the solar water splitting approach has been suggested as a green remedy for greenhouse environmental issues due to extensive consumption…
Graphitic carbon nitride has emerged as a versatile, metal-free semiconductor with applications spanning over broad range of domains encompassing energy storage, environmental remediation and sensing. Despite significant progress in recent…
In this work, using a hybrid density functional theory (DFT) based calculation, we propose a new two-dimensional (2D) B-C-N material, $g-B_{3}C_{2}N_{3}$, with the promising prospect of metal-free photocatalysis. A comprehensive…
The photocatalytic splitting of water into molecular hydrogen and molecular oxygen with sunlight is the dream reaction for solar energy conversion. Since decades, transition-metal-oxide semiconductors and supramolecular organometallic…
Photocatalysts are crucial materials for green energy production and environmental purification. Non-metal doped graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) has attracted much attention in recent years because of low-cost and desired photocatalytic…
Search of materials with C-N composition hold a great promise in creating materials which would rival diamond in hardness due to the very strong and relatively low-ionic C-N bond. Early experimental and theoretical works on C-N compounds…
Graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets are among 2D attractive materials due to presenting unusual physicochemical properties.Nevertheless, no adequate information exists about their mechanical and thermal properties. Therefore, we used…
A novel crystalline structure of hybrid monolayer hexagonal boron nitride (BN) and graphene is predicted by means of the first-principles calculations. This material can be derived via boron or nitrogen atoms substituted by carbon atoms…
g-C3N4 is a novel semiconductor photocatalyst material; however, the low specific surface area and rapid carrier compliance hinder its photocatalytic performance. On the other hand, the synthesis of 2D g-C3N4 with high crystallinity remains…
Conjugated polymeric g-C$_3$N$_4$ has emerged as a leading semiconductor for solar-to-chemical energy conversion due to its unique electronic band structure, robust physicochemical stability, and environmental benignity. However, defect…
We reveal the existence of stacking-dependent spatial(SDS) charge separation in graphitic carbonic nitride (g-C3N4) layers, with the density functional theory (DFT) calculations. In g-C3N4 bilayers, such SDS charge separation is found in…
g-C$_3$N$_4$ is a promising material for hydrogen production from water via photo-catalysis, if we can tune its band gap to desirable levels. Using a combined experimental and ab initio approach, we uncover an almost perfectly linear…
The heptazine-based polymer melon (also known as graphitic carbon nitride, g-C3N4), is a promising photocatalyst for hydrogen evolution. Nonetheless, attempts to improve its inherently low activity are rarely based on rational approaches…
Photocatalytic water splitting offers a viable and sustainable method for hydrogen production. MXenes, a class of 2D transition-metal carbides/nitrides, have emerged as potential photocatalysts and co-catalysts due to their tunable…
Photocatalytic water splitting has greatly stimulated as an ideal technique for producing hydrogen (H$_{2}$) fuel by employing two renewable sources, i.e., water and solar energy. Here, we have adopted a facile hydrothermal approach for the…
Nanoscrolls consist of sheets rolled up into a papyrus-like form. Their open ends produce great radial flexibility, which can be exploited for a large variety of applications, from actuators to hydrogen storage. They have been successfully…
More than thirty years ago, carbon nitrides featuring 3D frameworks of tetrahedral CN4 units were identified as one of the great aspirations of materials science, expected to have a hardness greater than or comparable to diamond. Since…
We present here results of our first principles studies of the sulfur doping effects on the electronic and geometric structures of graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4). Using the Ab initio thermodynamics approach combined with some kinetic…
Carbon nitride-based nanostructures have attracted special attention (from theory and experiments) due to their remarkable electromechanical properties. In this work we have investigated the mechanical properties of some graphene-like…