Carbon Nitride: Physical properties and Applications

TL;DR

This review discusses the physicochemical properties, recent advances, and future prospects of graphitic carbon nitride as a versatile, metal-free semiconductor with applications in energy, environment, and sensing.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive assessment of the material's properties, recent engineering strategies, and future research directions to enhance its applications.

Findings

Summarizes doping, heterojunction, and composite engineering techniques.

Highlights potential for catalytic and electronic performance improvements.

Outlines future research directions for sustainable systems.

Abstract

Graphitic carbon nitride has emerged as a versatile, metal-free semiconductor with applications spanning over broad range of domains encompassing energy storage, environmental remediation and sensing. Despite significant progress in recent years, there remains a lack of comprehensive discussion on the graphitic carbon nitride's evolving role in next-generation technologies and the engineering strategies needed to overcome existing challenges. In this review article, the critical assessment of the physicochemical properties of graphitic carbon nitride which holds potential to enable its function across diverse applications has been elucidated. Current advances in doping, heterojunction formation and composite engineering that enhances its catalytic and electronic performance has been summarized. The article also presents future research directions to unlock the full potential of graphitic carbon nitride as a useful material in sustainable and intelligent systems.