An Overview of the Recent Progress in Polymeric Carbon Nitride Based Photocatalysis

Recently, polymeric carbon nitride (g-C3N4) as a proficient photo-catalyst has been effectively employed in photocatalysis for energy conversion, storage, and pollutants degradation due to its low cost, robustness, environmentally friendly nature. The critical review summarized the recent development, fundamentals, nanostructures design, advantages, challenges of g-C3N4 (CN), potential future photoactive material. also discusses latest information on improvement CN-based heterojunctions including Type-II, Z-scheme, metal/CN Schottky junctions, noble metal@CN, graphene@CN, nanotubes (CNTs)@CN, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)/CN, layered double hydroxides (LDH)/CN heterostructures H2 production from H2O, CO2 conversion detail. optical absorption, electronic behavior, charge separation transfer, bandgap alignment are discussed elaborately. correlations between photocatalytic activities described excessively. Besides, prospects production, discussed.