Ordered Mesoporous SBA-15 Type Graphitic Carbon Nitride: A Semiconductor Host Structure for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution with Visible Light

Abstract

Ordered mesoporous carbon nitride shows improved photoactivity and is promising as a host semiconductor scaffold for the design of hybrid visible-light-sensitive catalysts, as it enables the co-assembly of chromophoric antenna molecules, water-reduction catalysts (here exemplified by Pt), and/or water-oxidation complexes into the host matrix, thus generating a new type of biomimetic photocatalyst system for water splitting chemistry but also for selective organic synthesis.