Increasing the Visible Light Absorption of Graphitic Carbon Nitride (Melon) Photocatalysts by Homogeneous Self‐Modification with Nitrogen Vacancies

A novel reduced melon photocatalyst with a bandgap of 2.03 eV developed here has a widened visible light absorption range and suppressed radiative recombination of photo-excited charge carriers due to the homogeneous self-modification with nitrogen vacancies. As a consequence, the reduced melon shows a much superior photocatalytic activity compared to the pristine melon in generating •OH radicals and degrading the organic pollutant Rhodamine B.

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