Bioinspired Mesoporous Chiral Nematic Graphitic Carbon Nitride Photocatalysts modulated by Polarized Light.

Title Bioinspired Mesoporous Chiral Nematic Graphitic Carbon Nitride Photocatalysts modulated by Polarized Light.
Authors W. Lin; W. Hong; L. Sun; D. Yu; D. Yu; X. Chen
Journal ChemSusChem
DOI 10.1002/cssc.201701984
Abstract

Endowing materials with chirality and exploring the responses of the material under circularly polarized light (CPL) can enable further insight into the physical and chemical properties of the semiconductors to be gained, thus expanding on optoelectronic applications. Herein a bioinspired mesoporous chiral nematic graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3 N4 ) for efficient hydrogen evolution with polarized light modulation based on chiral nematic cellulose nanocrystal films prepared through silica templating is described. The mesoporous nematic chiral g-C3 N4 exhibits an ultrahigh hydrogen evolution rate of 219.9??mol?h-1 (for 20?mg catalyst), corresponding to a high enhancement factor of 55 when compared to the bulk g-C3 N4 under ?>420?nm irradiation. Furthermore, the chiral g-C3 N4 material exhibits unique photocatalytic activity modulated by CPL within the absorption region. This CPL-assisted photocatalytic regulation strategy holds great promise for a wide range of applications including optical devices, asymmetric photocatalysis, and chiral recognition/separation.

Citation W. Lin; W. Hong; L. Sun; D. Yu; D. Yu; X. Chen.Bioinspired Mesoporous Chiral Nematic Graphitic Carbon Nitride Photocatalysts modulated by Polarized Light.. ChemSusChem. 2018;11(1):114119. doi:10.1002/cssc.201701984

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