Abstract what is a direction of research on renewable clean resources is that using the photocatalytic technology to convert solar energy into the energy that could be directly used by people in order to solve problems about environmental pollution。As a metal free polymer semiconductor,g-C3N4 has unique electronic structures and excellent chemical stability,which has aroused the attention of many scientists。It is widely used in photocatalytic purification of environmental pollutants,however,its lower catalytic efficiency makes further modification and optimization become the key point of the research。The effective regulation of morphology by using the solvent thermal method is one of the main research directions in the modification of carbon nitride。
The paper used dicyandiamide and cyanuric chloride as raw materials,carbon nitride nanoparticles were synthesized by a solvothermal method at low temperature, and using CTAB as template and structure directing agent of raw materials polymerization process control。The product is characterized by XRD、XPS、SEM and UV-Vis DRS in order to analyse its crystal phase, morphology, structure and optical absorption properties of the crystal minutely。Furthermore,we would like to evaluate its photocatalytic property by means of photocatalytic decomposition of organic dyes。
The results show that CTAB can regulate the process of CN what was synthesized by using the solvent thermal method,and the morphology of the nanoparticles could not be changed, but the addition of excess CTAB could cause the aggregation of microspheres。 When CTAB is involved in molecular polymerization, which leads to the increase of the carbon content in the product and the decrease of the degree of polymerization,it can also result in that the order of the conjugated structure units is suppressed。The increase of carbon content promotes the absorption ability of the light, but the semiconductor energy band is not changed。A balanced amount of CTAB on the regulation of CN can accelerate the photocatalytic decomposition rate of organic dye (methyl orange and Rhodamine B)。Mechanism study shows that the group what plays main role of this kind of catalyst on the decomposition of organic dyes was superoxide radical。
Keywords:g-C3N4; CTAB; solvothermal; photocatalytic degradation