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Point‐of‐Care Health Diagnostics and Food Quality Monitoring by Molecularly Imprinted Polymers‐Based Histamine Sensors

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Isolated Iridium Sites on Potassium‐Doped Carbon‐nitride wrapped Tellurium Nanostructures for Enhanced Glycerol Photooxidation

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Energy-saving piezoelectric pipe functionalized by C3N5/polyvinylidene fluoride composites for enhanced degradation of ciprofloxacin

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Three-Dimensional Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanoskeleton Cladded with a Graphitic C3N5 Nanolayer as a Sulfur Host for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

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Transition Metal Carbonitride MXenes Anchored with Pt Sub-Nanometer Clusters to Achieve High-Performance Hydrogen Evolution Reaction at All pH Range

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High molecular oxygen activation capacity of carbon defective g-C3N5 for photocatalytic degradation of antibiotics in water

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Direct Z-scheme palladium tetranapthalene porphyrin/C3N5 heterojunction for efficient photocatalytic degradation of high concentration dyes and antibacterial performances

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The highly efficient visible-light-induced photoactivity of novel Cu2CdSnS4/Pt/g-C3N5 ternary heterojunction with enhanced photocatalytic methylene blue degradation and hydrogen production

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Emerging Multifunctional Carbon‐Nanomaterial‐Based Biosensors for Cancer Diagnosis

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Insight into the key role of proton-functionalization in metal-free C3N5 activated visible light system for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction

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Partial Thermal Condensation Mediated Synthesis of High‐Density Nickel Single Atom Sites on Carbon Nitride for Selective Photooxidation of Methane into Methanol

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Stimuli‐Responsive Silica Silanol Conjugates: Strategic Nanoarchitectonics in Targeted Drug Delivery

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Copper‐Loaded Nitrogen‐Rich Mesoporous C3N6 Based Nanozymes for Calorimetric Detection of Glutathione and Glucose

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Optimizing C3N5 for advanced lithium‑sulfur batteries: Boron and oxygen modification in porous honeycomb frameworks

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Driving tetracycline hydrochloride degradation and concomitant hydrogen peroxide photosynthesis in a neutral environment over sulphur and oxygen codoped carbon nitride

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