Authors
Guigang Zhang, Minghui Liu, Tobias Heil, Spiros Zafeiratos, Aleksandr Savateev, Markus Antonietti, Xinchen Wang
Publication date
2019/10/14
Journal
Angewandte Chemie
Volume
131
Issue
42
Pages
15092-15096
Description
Polymeric carbon nitride (PCN) is usually synthesized from nitrogen‐rich monomers such as cyanamide, melamine, and urea, but is rather disordered in many cases. Now, a new allotrope of carbon nitride with internal heterostructures was obtained by co‐condensation of very electron poor monomers (for example, 5‐amino‐tetrazole and nucleobases) in the presence of mild molten salts (for example, NaCl/KCl) to mediate the polymerization kinetics and thus modulate the local structure, charge carrier properties, and most importantly the HOMO and LUMO levels. Results reveal that the as‐prepared NaK‐PHI‐A material shows excellent photo‐redox activities because of a nanometric hetero‐structure which enhances visible light absorption and promotes charge separation in the different domains.
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