화학공학소재연구정보센터
홈 로그인 로그아웃 연락처 사이트맵
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.84, 185-195, April, 2020
DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2019.12.033  Export Citation
Visible-light-induced nitrogen photofixation ability of g-C3N4 nanosheets decorated with MgO nanoparticles
Elham Vesali-Kermani, Aziz Habibi-Yangjeh†, and Srabanti Ghosh1
  • Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, P.O. Box 179, Ardabil, Iran
  • 1Fuel Cell & Battery Division, CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, 196, Raja S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata, 700032, India
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Nitrogen fixation is a natural or artificial process, in which molecular nitrogen is combined with other elements to form more-reactive compounds containing nitrogen elements. In this study, graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets were combined with nanoparticles of MgO to fabricate an efficient binary visible-light-induced photocatalysts (abbreviated as NCN/MgO), and they were applied for the photofixation of nitrogen gas. The synthesized photocatalysts were characterized to investigate the morphology, phase structure, optical, and textural properties. The results displayed that the NCN/MgO (10%) nanocomposite has considerable performance in the nitrogen photofixation reaction compared with the pristine CN and NCN, which is 10.8 and 2.8 times, respectively. The stability of the optimum sample, as a vital characteristic of photocatalyst, was examined in three runs. Also, the effect of MgO loading, calcination temperature, solvent, electron scavenger, pH, and absence of N2 in solution upon the NH4+ production rate was examined. Finally, an anticipated mechanism was proposed for the meaningful nitrogen photofixation enhancement.
Keywords:g-C3N4nanosheets/MgO;Nitrogen photofixation;Visible-light photocatalyst;Photocatalytic performance
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