Citation: Zhu Dongbo, Liu Huihui, Shao Xiang. AFM Characterizations of the Liquid-Phase Exfoliated Carbon Nitride on Various Substrates[J]. Chemistry, ;2017, 80(11): 1036-1042. shu

AFM Characterizations of the Liquid-Phase Exfoliated Carbon Nitride on Various Substrates

Department of Chemical Physics, CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026

Corresponding author: Shao Xiang, shaox@ustc.edu.cn
Received Date: 14 May 2017
Accepted Date: 12 June 2017

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Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C₃N₄) has provoked wide research interests in heterogeneous catalysis and photocatalysis, owing to its special layered structure and related electronic properties. In this work, the g-C₃N₄ powder was treated by ultrasonic bath in both isopropanol (IPA) and IPA-H₂O solvents and then dispersed on various substrates including mica, HOPG and Au(111). With detailed atomic force microscopy (AFM) characterizations, It was found that after 10 hours of ultrasonic bathing, the g-C₃N₄ grains were exfoliated into planate particles as small as 100 nm and thin as 10 nm. However the expected g-C₃N₄ nanosheets were not formed. This is most likely due to the low crystallinity of the g-C₃N₄ powder produced by the thermal polymerization.
- g-C₃N₄,
- 2D nanomaterials,
- Liquid-phase exfoliation,
- AFM
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