Engineering graphitic carbon nitride (g-C<sub>3</sub>N<sub>4</sub>) for catalytic reduction of CO<sub>2</sub>to fuels and chemicals: strategy and mechanism
Qingqing Lu, Kamel Eid, Wenpeng Li, Aboubakr M. Abdullah, Guobao Xu, Rajender S. Varma
Abstract
This review summarises the structural-compositional engineering of carbon nitride (g-C<sub>3</sub>N<sub>4</sub>) for electrocatalytic and photocatalytic CO<sub>2</sub>reduction to chemicals and fuels experimentally and theoretically.
Topics & Concepts
CatalysisGraphitic carbon nitrideNitrideCarbon fibersMechanism (biology)Reduction (mathematics)ChemistryChemical engineeringReaction mechanismCarbon nitrideMaterials scienceInorganic chemistryNanotechnologyOrganic chemistryPhysicsEngineeringLayer (electronics)GeometryPhotocatalysisComposite materialMathematicsComposite numberQuantum mechanicsAdvanced Photocatalysis TechniquesCO2 Reduction Techniques and CatalystsCatalytic Processes in Materials Science