Nature Reviews Materials, volume 2, issue 6, publication number 17030

Functional carbon nitride materials — design strategies for electrochemical devices

Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2017-05-31
Quartile SCImago
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Quartile WOS
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Impact factor83.5
ISSN20588437
Materials Chemistry
Surfaces, Coatings and Films
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Biomaterials
Energy (miscellaneous)
Abstract
In the past decade, research in the field of artificial photosynthesis has shifted from simple, inorganic semiconductors to more abundant, polymeric materials. For example, polymeric carbon nitrides have emerged as promising materials for metal-free semiconductors and metal-free photocatalysts. Polymeric carbon nitride (melon) and related carbon nitride materials are desirable alternatives to industrially used catalysts because they are easily synthesized from abundant and inexpensive starting materials. Furthermore, these materials are chemically benign because they do not contain heavy metal ions, thereby facilitating handling and disposal. In this Review, we discuss the building blocks of carbon nitride materials and examine how strategies in synthesis, templating and post-processing translate from the molecular level to macroscopic properties, such as optical and electronic bandgap. Applications of carbon nitride materials in bulk heterojunctions, laser-patterned memory devices and energy storage devices indicate that photocatalytic overall water splitting on an industrial scale may be realized in the near future and reveal a new avenue of ‘post-silicon electronics’. Carbon nitrides are potentially cheap and metal-free alternatives for catalysts, semiconductors, battery materials and memory devices. In this Review, we discuss the synthesis, design and morphology of these materials, and reflect on the ability of methods such as templating, etching, dye sensitization, heteroatom doping and co-polymerization, as well as the assembly of various heterojunctions, to improve device performance.

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Kessler F. K. et al. Functional carbon nitride materials — design strategies for electrochemical devices // Nature Reviews Materials. 2017. Vol. 2. No. 6. 17030
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Kessler F. K., Zheng Y., Schwarz D., Merschjann C., Schnick W., Wang X., Bojdys M. J. Functional carbon nitride materials — design strategies for electrochemical devices // Nature Reviews Materials. 2017. Vol. 2. No. 6. 17030
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1038/natrevmats.2017.30
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/natrevmats201730
TI - Functional carbon nitride materials — design strategies for electrochemical devices
T2 - Nature Reviews Materials
AU - Kessler, Fabian K
AU - Zheng, Yun
AU - Schwarz, Dana
AU - Merschjann, Christoph
AU - Schnick, Wolfgang
AU - Wang, Xinchen
AU - Bojdys, Michael J
PY - 2017
DA - 2017/05/31 00:00:00
PB - Springer Nature
IS - 6
VL - 2
SN - 2058-8437
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@article{2017_Kessler,
author = {Fabian K Kessler and Yun Zheng and Dana Schwarz and Christoph Merschjann and Wolfgang Schnick and Xinchen Wang and Michael J Bojdys},
title = {Functional carbon nitride materials — design strategies for electrochemical devices},
journal = {Nature Reviews Materials},
year = {2017},
volume = {2},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
month = {may},
url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/natrevmats201730},
number = {6},
doi = {10.1038/natrevmats.2017.30}
}
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