Separation and Purification Technology, volume 330, pages 125302

Recent advances, application and prospect in g-C3N4-based S-scheme heterojunction photocatalysts

Pengyu Hao ¹

Zhouze Chen ²

Yujie Yan ²

Weilong Shi ²

Weilong J. Shi ¹

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School of Energy and Power, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu 212003, PR China |

School of Material Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu 212003, PR China |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2024-02-01

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DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2023.125302

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Semiconductor photocatalytic technology has great potential in solar energy utilization and conversion and meets people's demand for sustainable development. In recent years, graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) has been considered as a potential photocatalyst due to its unique electronic band structure, excellent optical and electronic properties, cheap raw materials and easy synthesis. However, the single g-C3N4 faces the high recombination rate of photogenerated electron-hole pairs and its low reduction and oxidation capacity, which limits its practical application in the field of photocatalysis. The emerging S-scheme heterojunction can overcome the problems existing in the traditional type-II and Z-scheme heterojunctions and has great advantages in improving the photocatalytic activity by photo-generated electron transfer. Hence, the design mechanism of the S-scheme heterojunction and the proof of its charge transfer mechanism are presented in detail in this review. In addition, the synthesis methods, modification strategies and related applications of g-C3N4-based S- scheme heterojunctions are discussed and summarized. Finally, the limitations of current research on S-scheme heterojunction photocatalysts are discussed and prospected.

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DO - 10.1016/j.seppur.2023.125302

UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2023.125302

TI - Recent advances, application and prospect in g-C3N4-based S-scheme heterojunction photocatalysts

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AU - Hao, Pengyu

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@article{2024_Hao,

author = {Pengyu Hao and Zhouze Chen and Yujie Yan and Weilong Shi and Weilong J. Shi},

title = {Recent advances, application and prospect in g-C3N4-based S-scheme heterojunction photocatalysts},

journal = {Separation and Purification Technology},

year = {2024},

volume = {330},

publisher = {Elsevier},

month = {feb},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2023.125302},

pages = {125302},

doi = {10.1016/j.seppur.2023.125302}

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