Sulfur-doped graphitic carbon nitride decorated with graphene quantum dots for an efficient metal-free electrocatalyst

Chenyu Xu; Qing Han; Yang Zhao; Lixia Wang; Yang Li; Liangti Qu

doi:10.1039/c4ta06149g

Sulfur-doped graphitic carbon nitride decorated with graphene quantum dots for an efficient metal-free electrocatalyst

Chenyu Xu, Qing Han, Yang Zhao^*, Lixia Wang, Yang Li, Liangti Qu

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Beijing Institute of Technology

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A rationally designed strategy has been developed for spontaneous reduction and assembly of graphene quantum dots rich in carbonyl and carboxylic groups (ox-GQDs) onto sulfur doped graphitic carbon nitride (s-g-C₃N₄) nanosheets to form unique s-g-C₃N₄@GQD nanohybrids by a one-step hydrothermal treatment. The fabricated architectures exhibit remarkably enhanced catalytic activity in the oxygen reduction reaction far better than the original s-g-C₃N₄ and GQDs, which is even comparable to those of well-developed graphene and GQD-based catalysts, demonstrating the potential towards energy conversion applications.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1841-1846
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Volume	3
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ta06149g
Publication status	Published - 7 Feb 2015

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