TY - JOUR
T1 - Metal-Doped Graphitic Carbon Nitride Nanomaterials for Photocatalytic Environmental Applications—A Review
AU - Palani, Geetha
AU - Apsari, Retna
AU - Hanafiah, Marlia M.
AU - Venkateswarlu, Katta
AU - Lakkaboyana, Sivarama Krishna
AU - Kannan, Karthik
AU - Shivanna, Anilkumar Thaghalli
AU - Idris, Abubakr M.
AU - Yadav, Chappidi Hazarathaiah
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2022/5/1
Y1 - 2022/5/1
N2 - In the current world situation, population and industrial growth have become major prob-lems for energy and environmental concerns. Extremely noxious pollutants such as heavy metal ions, dyes, antibiotics, phenols, and pesticides in water are the main causes behind deprived water quality leading to inadequate access to clean water. In this connection, graphite carbon nitride (GCN or g-C3N4) a nonmetallic polymeric material has been utilized extensively as a visible-light-responsive photocatalyst for a variety of environmental applications. This review focuses on recent developments in the design and photocatalytic applications of metal-doped GCN-based nanomaterials in CO2 pho-toreduction, water splitting toward hydrogen production, bacterial disinfection, and organic pollutant degradation. Additionally, this review discusses various methods of using GCN-based materials to optimize dye sensitization, metal deposition, ion doping, and their environmental applications.
AB - In the current world situation, population and industrial growth have become major prob-lems for energy and environmental concerns. Extremely noxious pollutants such as heavy metal ions, dyes, antibiotics, phenols, and pesticides in water are the main causes behind deprived water quality leading to inadequate access to clean water. In this connection, graphite carbon nitride (GCN or g-C3N4) a nonmetallic polymeric material has been utilized extensively as a visible-light-responsive photocatalyst for a variety of environmental applications. This review focuses on recent developments in the design and photocatalytic applications of metal-doped GCN-based nanomaterials in CO2 pho-toreduction, water splitting toward hydrogen production, bacterial disinfection, and organic pollutant degradation. Additionally, this review discusses various methods of using GCN-based materials to optimize dye sensitization, metal deposition, ion doping, and their environmental applications.
KW - environmental applications
KW - graphitic carbon nitride
KW - metal-doped materials
KW - nanomaterials
KW - photocatalysts
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85130410209&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/nano12101754
DO - 10.3390/nano12101754
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85130410209
SN - 2079-4991
VL - 12
JO - Nanomaterials
JF - Nanomaterials
IS - 10
M1 - 1754
ER -
