Investigation of Graphitic Carbon Nitride (g-C3N4) structure

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Production of hydrogen from water via visible light driven photocatalytic water splitting is a future technology that may offer important routes to clean fuels. Graphitic carbon nitride (g C3N4) has been proven to be a suitable catalyst for this process. Its structure has been investigated for many years and is known to consist of graphitic type sheets; however, it is not fully crystalline expecially in 3 dimensions, its stoiciometry varies fron the ideal C3:N4 ratio and there is some evidence of residual H-atoms in the structure . Recent work shows that photocatalytic activity of g C3N4 for hydrogen production depends upon synthesis conditions, especially final temperature. This is thought to be linked to structure, including dimensionality, and the associated C:N:H stoichiometry, thus we propose to investigate structure and its evolution on NIMROD. linking to photoactalytic studies.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24090198
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24090198
Provenance
Creator Professor John Irvine; Dr George Carins; Dr Cristian Savaniu; Ms Rachel Bill; Dr Paul Anderson; Dr Josh Makepeace; Dr Martin Jones; Ms Federica Fina
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-03-18T09:28:36Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-07-29T09:55:29Z