title: Carbon nitride in energy conversion and storage: recent advances and future prospects.
abstract: With the explosive growth of energy consumption, the exploration of highly efficient energy conversion and storage devices becomes increasingly important. Fuel cells, supercapacitors, and lithium-ion batteries are among the most promising options. The innovation of these devices mainly resides in the development of high-performance electrode materials and catalysts. Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3 N4 ), due to structural and chemical properties such as semiconductor optical properties, rich nitrogen content, and tunable porous structure, has drawn considerable attention and shown great potential as an electrode material or catalyst in energy conversion and storage devices. This review covers recent progress in g-C3 N4 -containing systems for fuel cells, electrocatalytic water splitting devices, supercapacitors, and lithium-ion batteries. The corresponding catalytic mechanisms and future research directions in these areas are also discussed.
authors: Advanced Materials and Catalysis Group, ZJU-NHU United R&D Center, Center for Chemistry of High-Performance and Novel Materials, Key Lab of Applied Chemistry of Zhejiang Province, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou (P.R. China).
authors: Yutong
authors: Y
authors: Gong
authors: Mingming
authors: M
authors: Li
authors: Yong
authors: Y
authors: Wang
mesh_terms: D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D004563:Electrochemistry; D004736:Energy-Generating Resources; D008094:Lithium / Q000737:chemistry; D009570:Nitriles / Q000737:chemistry*; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D009570:Nitriles; D014867:Water; C011206:cyanogen; D008094:Lithium
keywords: carbon; electrochemistry; energy conversion; fuel cells; water splitting