TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jordan, Thomas
A1  - Fechler, Nina
A1  - Xu, Jingsan
A1  - Brenner, Thomas J. K.
A1  - Antonietti, Markus
A1  - Shalom, Menny
T1  - "Caffeine Doping" of Carbon/Nitrogen-Based Organic Catalysts: Caffeine as a Supramolecular Edge Modifier for the Synthesis of Photoactive Carbon Nitride Tubes
JF  - ChemCatChem : heterogeneous & homogeneous & bio- & nano-catalysis ; a journal of ChemPubSoc Europe
N2  - An alternative method for the structure tuning of carbon nitride materials by using a supramolecular approach in combination with caffeine as lining-agent is described. The self-assembly of the precursor complex consisting of melamine and cyanuric acid can be controlled by this doping molecule in terms of morphology, electronic, and photophysical properties. Caffeine is proposed to insert as an edge-molecule eventually leading to hollow tube-like carbon nitride structures with improved efficiency of charge formation. Compared to the bulk carbon nitride, the caffeine-doped analogue possesses a higher photocatalytic activity for the degradation of rhodamineB dye. Furthermore, this approach is also shown to be suitable for the modification of carbon nitride electrodes.
KW  - caffeine
KW  - carbon nitride
KW  - films
KW  - photocatalysis
KW  - supramolecular chemistry
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201500343
SN  - 1867-3880
SN  - 1867-3899
VL  - 7
IS  - 18
SP  - 2826
EP  - 2830
PB  - Wiley-VCH
CY  - Weinheim
ER  -