Graphitic carbon nitride: properties and applications in gas sensing. Review
Abstract
Purpose: Nowadays gas sensors are of great interest for disease detection and assessment of treatment efficacy based on exhaled breath analysis. One of the promising materials for gas sensors are composites of graphitic carbon nitride withmetal oxides.
Experimental: The article considers the basic properties of g-C3N4 and provides a review of methods that can be effective for obtaining its composites with metal oxides.
Conclusions: The study presents the mechanism of interaction of g-C3N4 with gases of different nature. In addition, it gives some examples of sensors based on composites of g-C3N4 with metal oxides
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