Photodegradation of cytostatic drugs by g-C3N4: Synthesis, properties and performance fitted by selecting the appropriate precursor

Pérez-Molina, Álvaro; Pastrana‐Martínez, Luisa M.; Morales‐Torres, Sergio; Maldonado-Hódar, Francisco J.

doi:10.1016/j.cattod.2023.114068

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“…The g-C 3 N 4 is comprised of only carbon and nitrogen elements, which are very abundant on the Earth. Importantly, the g-C 3 N 4 materials can be easily fabricated by thermal polymerization of abundant nitrogen-rich precursors such as melamine [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16], dicyandiamide [17][18][19][20][21][22], cyanamide [23][24][25], urea [18,26,27], thiourea [28][29][30], ammonium thiocyanate [31][32][33], etc. Because the band gap of g-C 3 N 4 is 2.7 eV, it can absorb visible light shorter than 450 nm effectively, implying broad prospects in solar energy conversion applications.…”

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Recent Advances in g-C3N4 Photocatalysts: A Review of Reaction Parameters, Structure Design and Exfoliation Methods

Pei,

Li,

Zhuang

et al. 2023

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Graphitized carbon nitride (g-C3N4), as a metal-free, visible-light-responsive photocatalyst, has a very broad application prospect in the fields of solar energy conversion and environmental remediation. The g-C3N4 photocatalyst owns a series of conspicuous characteristics, such as very suitable band structure, strong physicochemical stability, abundant reserves, low cost, etc. Research on the g-C3N4 or g-C3N4-based photocatalysts for real applications has become a competitive hot topic and a frontier area with thousands of publications over the past 17 years. In this paper, we carefully reviewed the recent advances in the synthesis and structural design of g-C3N4 materials for efficient photocatalysts. First, the crucial synthesis parameters of g-C3N4 were fully discussed, including the categories of g-C3N4 precursors, reaction temperature, reaction atmosphere and reaction duration. Second, the construction approaches of various nanostructures were surveyed in detail, such as hard and soft template, supramolecular preorganization and template-free approaches. Third, the characteristics of different exfoliation methods were compared and summarized. At the end, the problems of g-C3N4 materials in photocatalysis and the prospect of further development were disclosed and proposed to provide some key guidance for designing more efficient and applicable g-C3N4 or g-C3N4-based photocatalysts.

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