Wang Yuxiong,Rao Lei,Wang Peifang,Guo Yong,Guo Xiang,Zhang Lixin
In order to overcome photocatalytic technology application limitations in water due to weak light intensity, it is crucial to synthesize photocatalysts that respond to weak light. In this study, porous and oxygen-doped carbon nitride (CN-MC) was synthesized via supramolecular preassembly technology using melamine and cyanuric chloride. The carbon nitride catalyst produced via this technology has a relatively high surface area (63.2 m 2 g −1 ), irregular pores, and oxygen doping characteristics, which enhance the light capture capacity, increase the number of reactive sites, and accelerate electron–hole separation efficiency. Thus, the CN-MC exhibited excellent photocatalytic activity during the degradation of organic pollutants Rhodamine B (RhB, 95% removal within 6 h) and tetracycline hydrochloride (TC-HCl, 70% removal within 6 h) under low-intensity light (the light intensity = 0.8~1.8 mW cm −2 with a wavelength range of 300–700 nm). Mechanistic analysis showed that ·O 2 − and ·OH were the dominant active free radicals during RhB and TC-HCl photocatalytic degradation over CN-MC. The proposed synthesis strategy effectively improves the photocatalytic activity of graphite carbon nitride under weak light by producing a porous morphology and oxygen atom doping.
Self-powered devices have great potential in daily applications ranging from portable electronics to wearable body sensors, yet their working lifetime and performance are normally limited by the low energy density of the power unit as well as additional resistive losses induced by connections between electronic and power moieties. Herein, we report an effective programmable laser-assisted fabrication of facilely integrated microphotocapacitors (integrated devices of solar cells and microsupercapacitors, mPCs) exhibiting high output voltage and energy density (32.3 μWh cm–2). An mPC pack (8 mPCs in series within a size of 3 × 3 cm2) delivers an excellent Voc of 7.3 V, and an output voltage of 90 V can be obtained with an array of 14 mPC packs when tested outdoors under solar illumination (63 mW cm–2), setting a new benchmark for integrated self-charging power packs. These devices have also shown good stability (stable operation over 2000 cycles, 2.1 × 104 s) and performance under low- or intermittent-intensity light illuminations, highlighting their abilities to work indoors or under cloudy weather.