Issue 2, 2024

Critical role of hydrogen bonding between microcrystalline cellulose and g-C3N4 enables highly efficient photocatalysis

Abstract

Developing a highly efficient photocatalyst for energy and environmental applications is urgently required. Herein, graphitic carbon nitride (CN) coupled with microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) (denoted as MCC-X/CN) shows excellent photocatalytic performance for tetracycline (TC) degradation and H2 evolution. And the optimized MCC-0.05/CN shows an improved TC degradation rate (Kapp = 0.019 min−1) and H2 evolution rate (642.71 μmol g−1 h−1), which are 1.9 and 22 times higher than those of pure CN, respectively. This improvement primarily results from hydrogen bonding (H-bonding) between CN and MCC, which enables excellent charge separation and migration, leading to the outstanding photoelectrochemical properties of MCC-0.05/CN.

Graphical abstract: Critical role of hydrogen bonding between microcrystalline cellulose and g-C3N4 enables highly efficient photocatalysis

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Article type
Communication
Submitted
28 sep 2023
Accepted
24 nov 2023
First published
24 nov 2023

Chem. Commun., 2024,60, 204-207

Critical role of hydrogen bonding between microcrystalline cellulose and g-C3N4 enables highly efficient photocatalysis

Z. Wang, G. Ding, J. Zhang, X. Lv, P. Wang, L. Shuai, C. Li, Y. Ni and G. Liao, Chem. Commun., 2024, 60, 204 DOI: 10.1039/D3CC04800D

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