Issue 36, 2023, Issue in Progress

Alternating current properties of bulk- and nanosheet-graphitic carbon nitride compacts at elevated temperatures

Abstract

The investigations of temperature-dependent electrical properties in graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) have been largely performed at/below room temperature on devices commonly fabricated by vacuum techniques, leaving the gap to further explore its behaviors at high-temperature. We reported herein the temperature dependence (400 → 35 °C) of alternating current (AC) electrical properties in bulk- and nanosheet-g-C3N4 compacts simply prepared by pelletizing the powder. The bulk sample was synthesized via the direct heating of urea, and the subsequent HNO3-assisted thermal exfoliation yielded the nanosheet counterpart. Their thermal stability was confirmed by variable-temperature X-ray diffraction, demonstrating reversible interlayer expansion/contraction upon heating/cooling with the thermal expansion coefficient of 2.2 × 10−5–3.1 × 10−5 K−1. It is found that bulk- and nanosheet-g-C3N4 were highly insulating (resistivity ρ ∼ 108 Ω cm unchanged with temperature), resembling layered van der Waals materials such as graphite fluoride but unlike electronically insulating oxides. Likewise, the dielectric permittivity ε′, loss tangent tan δ, refractive index n, dielectric heating coefficient J, and attenuation coefficient α, were weakly temperature- and frequency-dependent (103–105 Hz). The experimentally determined ε′ of bulk-g-C3N4 was reasonably close to the in-plane static dielectric permittivity (8 vs. 5.1) deduced from first-principles calculation, consistent with the anisotropic structure. The nanosheet-g-C3N4 exhibited a higher ε′ ∼ 15 while keeping similar tan δ (∼0.09) compared to the bulk counterpart, demonstrating its potential as a highly insulating, stable dielectrics at elevated temperatures.

Graphical abstract: Alternating current properties of bulk- and nanosheet-graphitic carbon nitride compacts at elevated temperatures

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
07 Jul 2023
Accepted
16 Aug 2023
First published
23 Aug 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2023,13, 25276-25283

Alternating current properties of bulk- and nanosheet-graphitic carbon nitride compacts at elevated temperatures

T. Maluangnont, P. Pulphol, K. Chaithaweep, K. Dabsamut, T. Kobkeatthawin, S. M. Smith, A. Boonchun and N. Vittayakorn, RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 25276 DOI: 10.1039/D3RA04520J

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