Description
Synthesis, Characterization and Applications of Graphitic Carbon Nitride: An Uprising Carbonaceous Material offers an up-to-date record on the major findings and observations relating to graphitic carbon nitride-based systems, elaborately covering all the aspects of carbon nitride as chemical stable and pollution-free materials that are easy to prepare in a cost-effective way, along with their applications in photocatalytic degradation of pollutants, photocatalytic hydrogen generation, carbon dioxide reduction, disinfection, sensors and supercapacitors. Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) is a fascinating visible light photocatalyst, which possesses many properties that can be used for many applications.This makes the book an indispensable reference for (post)-graduate students, researchers in academia and industry, and engineers working in the field of graphitic carbon-nitride-based systems.- Includes the applications of graphitic carbon nitride as a photocatalyst for the reduction of CO2- Describes the synthesis structure and properties of graphitic carbon nitride-based systems- Deals with the development of graphitic carbon nitride-based nanocomposites- Includes hydrogen production via water splitting by using graphitic carbon nitride- Describes the applications of graphitic carbon nitride in the field of sensors, solar cells, fuel cells and in analytical chemistry
Table of Contents
1. Discovery and historical development of graphitic carbon nitride2. Synthesis, Structure and properties3. Engineering of hetero-junction photo catalyst4. Graphitic carbon nitride-based nanocomposites5. Graphitic carbon nitride/polymer nanocomposites6. Photo catalytic water splitting and reduction of CO27. Photo catalytic pollutant degradation and bacterial disinfection8. Flame retardancy and thermal properties of Graphitic Carbon Nitride based materials9. g-C3N4 based sensors10. Application in fuel cell and solar cell11. Applications of graphitic carbon nitride as sorbent in analytical chemistry12. Magnetically separable graphitic carbon nitride-based nanocomposites13. Doping of graphitic carbon nitride for photocatalysis14. Graphitic carbon nitride-based materials for biomedical applications
