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Graphitic Carbon Nitride as a New Sustainable Photocatalyst for Textile Functionalization

As a promising organic semiconducting material, polymeric graphitic carbon nitride (g-C(3)N(4)) has attracted much attention due to its excellent optical and photoelectrochemical properties, thermal stability, chemical inertness, nontoxicity, abundance, and low cost. Its advantageous visible light-i...

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Autores principales: Vasiljević, Jelena, Jerman, Ivan, Simončič, Barbara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8348461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34372171
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym13152568
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author Vasiljević, Jelena
Jerman, Ivan
Simončič, Barbara
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Jerman, Ivan
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description As a promising organic semiconducting material, polymeric graphitic carbon nitride (g-C(3)N(4)) has attracted much attention due to its excellent optical and photoelectrochemical properties, thermal stability, chemical inertness, nontoxicity, abundance, and low cost. Its advantageous visible light-induced photocatalytic activity has already been beneficially used in the fields of environmental remediation, biological applications, healthcare, energy conversion and storage, and fuel production. Despite the recognized potential of g-C(3)N(4), there is still a knowledge gap in the application of g-C(3)N(4) in the field of textiles, with no published reviews on the g-C(3)N(4)-functionalization of textile materials. Therefore, this review article aims to provide a critical overview of recent advances in the surface and bulk modification of textile fibres by g-C(3)N(4) and its composites to tailor photocatalytic self-cleaning, antibacterial, and flame retardant properties as well as to create a textile catalytic platform for water disinfection, the removal of various organic pollutants from water, and selective organic transformations. This paper highlights the possibilities of producing g-C(3)N(4)-functionalized textile substrates and suggests some future prospects for this research area.
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spelling pubmed-83484612021-08-08 Graphitic Carbon Nitride as a New Sustainable Photocatalyst for Textile Functionalization Vasiljević, Jelena Jerman, Ivan Simončič, Barbara Polymers (Basel) Review As a promising organic semiconducting material, polymeric graphitic carbon nitride (g-C(3)N(4)) has attracted much attention due to its excellent optical and photoelectrochemical properties, thermal stability, chemical inertness, nontoxicity, abundance, and low cost. Its advantageous visible light-induced photocatalytic activity has already been beneficially used in the fields of environmental remediation, biological applications, healthcare, energy conversion and storage, and fuel production. Despite the recognized potential of g-C(3)N(4), there is still a knowledge gap in the application of g-C(3)N(4) in the field of textiles, with no published reviews on the g-C(3)N(4)-functionalization of textile materials. Therefore, this review article aims to provide a critical overview of recent advances in the surface and bulk modification of textile fibres by g-C(3)N(4) and its composites to tailor photocatalytic self-cleaning, antibacterial, and flame retardant properties as well as to create a textile catalytic platform for water disinfection, the removal of various organic pollutants from water, and selective organic transformations. This paper highlights the possibilities of producing g-C(3)N(4)-functionalized textile substrates and suggests some future prospects for this research area. MDPI 2021-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8348461/ /pubmed/34372171 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym13152568 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Graphitic Carbon Nitride as a New Sustainable Photocatalyst for Textile Functionalization
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title_full Graphitic Carbon Nitride as a New Sustainable Photocatalyst for Textile Functionalization
title_fullStr Graphitic Carbon Nitride as a New Sustainable Photocatalyst for Textile Functionalization
title_full_unstemmed Graphitic Carbon Nitride as a New Sustainable Photocatalyst for Textile Functionalization
title_short Graphitic Carbon Nitride as a New Sustainable Photocatalyst for Textile Functionalization
title_sort graphitic carbon nitride as a new sustainable photocatalyst for textile functionalization
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8348461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34372171
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym13152568
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