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Due to a growing number of significant vitality and environmental issues, the standardized variation of carbon nitride (CN) for visible-light photocatalytic water splitting is an encouraging scientific topic. By revealing this, the functionalized monomer 2,6-dibromobenzimidazole (BI) was successfully embedded within the heptazine units of CN via a molecular engineering (Co-polymerization process) approach, and the as-synthesized product was named CN/BIx. Thereafter, as-synthesized materials were employed in the photocatalytic production of hydrogen (H-2) via water splitting and CO2 reduction into CO under visible light irradiance (lambda = 420 nm). Surprisingly, the substituent framework of CN, which was intimi-dated by the description of BI monomer, acted as a substitution reaction material and lubricated the elec-tronic structure of CN by endorsing charge transition dissociation, which in turn boosted its photocatalytic performance under visible irradiation. The CN/BI10.0 yields 62.8 mol of CO and 18.1 mol of H-2 for 4 h of the catalyzed reaction upon photooxidation under light irradiation, emphasizing the max-imum photocatalytic performance with response to CO2-+ Correspondingly, the H-2 evolution rate (HER) for bulk CN was estimated as 17.6 mol/h(1), whereas it was approximated as 203.7 mol/h(1) for CN/BI10.0, which is 10 times higher than that of CN. Such a phenomenon also predicts a substantial encroachment in the surface area, energy gap, and chemical properties, along with promotes the effective segregation of pho-toinduced charge separation from the valence band (VB) to the conduction band (CB) of CN, thereby, making it a good alternative for the photocatalytic water and CO2 reduction reaction process. (c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS
ISSN: 0167-7322
Year: 2022
Volume: 368
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ESI Discipline: CHEMISTRY;
ESI HC Threshold:74
JCR Journal Grade:1
CAS Journal Grade:2
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SCOPUS Cited Count: 17
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