g-C3N4 quantum dots: direct synthesis, upconversion properties and photocatalytic application

A metal-free polymeric photocatalyst for hydrogen production from water under visible light

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Chemically Derived, Ultrasmooth Graphene Nanoribbon Semiconductors

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Graphene‐Like Carbon Nitride Nanosheets for Improved Photocatalytic Activities

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Hydrothermal Route for Cutting Graphene Sheets into Blue‐Luminescent Graphene Quantum Dots

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Chaotic Dirac Billiard in Graphene Quantum Dots

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Carbon Dots for Multiphoton Bioimaging

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A facile approach to synthesize novel oxygen-doped g-C3N4 with superior visible-light photoreactivity

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Polycondensation of thiourea into carbon nitride semiconductors as visible light photocatalysts

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Upconversion and Downconversion Fluorescent Graphene Quantum Dots: Ultrasonic Preparation and Photocatalysis

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Unmasking Melon by a Complementary Approach Employing Electron Diffraction, Solid‐State NMR Spectroscopy, and Theoretical Calculations—Structural Characterization of a Carbon Nitride Polymer

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Formation Mechanism of Carbogenic Nanoparticles with Dual Photoluminescence Emission

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Layered Nanojunctions for Hydrogen‐Evolution Catalysis

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Facile preparation and upconversion luminescence of graphene quantum dots

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A Facile Band Alignment of Polymeric Carbon Nitride Semiconductors to Construct Isotype Heterojunctions

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Synthesis and Efficient Visible Light Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution of Polymeric g-C3N4 Coupled with CdS Quantum Dots

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Photocatalytic Activity Enhanced via g-C3N4 Nanoplates to Nanorods

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Enhanced visible light photocatalytic activity of novel polymeric g-C3N4 loaded with Ag nanoparticles

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A low-temperature solid-phase method to synthesize highly fluorescent carbon nitride dots with tunable emission

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α-Sulfur Crystals as a Visible-Light-Active Photocatalyst

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Facile bulk production of highly blue fluorescent graphitic carbon nitride quantum dots and their application as highly selective and sensitive sensors for the detection of mercuric and iodide ions in aqueous media

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Synthesis of Carbon Nitride Semiconductors in Sulfur Flux for Water Photoredox Catalysis

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Graphene and g-C3N4Nanosheets Cowrapped Elemental α-Sulfur As a Novel Metal-Free Heterojunction Photocatalyst for Bacterial Inactivation under Visible-Light

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Wet Chemistry Route to Hydrophobic Blue Fluorescent Nanodiamond

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One-pot synthesis of N-doped carbon dots with tunable luminescence properties

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Red phosphorus: An elemental photocatalyst for hydrogen formation from water

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Synthesis of Spherical Carbon Nitride Nanostructures

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Upconversion fluorescent carbon nanodots enriched with nitrogen for light harvesting

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Electrophoretic fabrication of highly robust, efficient, and benign heterojunction photoelectrocatalysts based on graphene-quantum-dot sensitized TiO2 nanotube arrays

Pan, D.-Y., Xi, C., Li, Z., Wang, L., Chen, Z.-W., Lu, B., & Wu, M.-H. (2013) · Journal of Materials Chemistry A · doi:10.1039/c3ta00059a · Cited by 126

Fabrication of graphene quantum dots via size-selective precipitation and their application in upconversion-based DSSCs

Lee, E., Ryu, J., & Jang, J. (2013) · Chemical Communications · doi:10.1039/c3cc45588b · Cited by 98

A novel nickel–thiourea–triethylamine complex adsorbed on graphitic C3N4 for low-cost solar hydrogen production

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Graphitic Carbon Nitride (g-C 3 N 4 )-Based Photocatalysts for Artificial Photosynthesis and Environmental Remediation: Are We a Step Closer To Achieving Sustainability?

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Emerging Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Electrocatalysis

Jin, H., Guo, C., Liu, X., Liu, J., Vasileff, A., Jiao, Y., Zheng, Y., & Qiao, S.-Z. (2018) · Chemical Reviews · doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00689 · Cited by 2,029

Engineering heterogeneous semiconductors for solar water splitting

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Functional carbon nitride materials — design strategies for electrochemical devices

Kessler, F. K., Zheng, Y., Schwarz, D., Merschjann, C., Schnick, W., Wang, X., & Bojdys, M. J. (2017) · Nature Reviews Materials · doi:10.1038/natrevmats.2017.30 · Cited by 1,075

Template-free synthesis of 2D porous ultrathin nonmetal-doped g-C3N4 nanosheets with highly efficient photocatalytic H2 evolution from water under visible light

She, X., Liu, L., Ji, H., Mo, Z., Li, Y., Huang, L., Du, D., Xu, H., & Li, H. (2016) · Applied Catalysis B: Environmental · doi:10.1016/j.apcatb.2015.12.046 · Cited by 503