Graphitic carbon nitride as a new sustainable photocatalyst for textile functionalization

Vasiljević, Jelena (author), Jerman, Ivan (author), Simončič, Barbara (author)

As a promising organic semiconducting material, polymeric graphitic carbon nitride (g-C$_3$N$_4$) has attracted much attention due to its excellent optical and photoelectrochemical properties, thermal stability, chemical inertness, nontoxicity, abundance, and low cost. Its advantageous visible light-induced photocatalytic activity has already been beneficially used in the fields of environmental remediation, biological applications, healthcare, energy conversion and storage, and fuel production. Despite the recognized potential of g-C$_3$N$_4$, there is still a knowledge gap in the application of g-C$_3$N$_4$ in the field of textiles, with no published reviews on the g-C$_3$N$_4$-functionalization of textile materials. Therefore, this review article aims to provide a critical overview of recent advances in the surface and bulk modification of textile fibres by g-C$_3$N$_4$ and its composites to tailor photocatalytic self-cleaning, antibacterial, and flame retardant properties as well as to create a textile catalytic platform for water disinfection, the removal of various organic pollutants from water, and selective organic transformations. This paper highlights the possibilities of producing g-C$_3$N$_4$-functionalized textile substrates and suggests some future prospects for this research area.

• Language: English
• Keywords: graphitic carbon nitride, textile, fibres, functionalization, surface and bulk modification, photocatalytic activity, self-cleaning, antibacterial properties
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: NTF - Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: 21 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 13, iss. 15, art. 2568
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-136095
• UDC: 677
• ISSN on article: 2073-4360
• DOI: 10.3390/polym13152568
• COBISS.SI-ID: 73349635
• Publication date in RUL: 12.04.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Polymers
• Shortened title: Polymers
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2073-4360
• COBISS.SI-ID: 517951257

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 01.08.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: grafitni ogljikov nitrid, tekstilije, vlakna, funkcionalizacija, površinska modifikacija, modifikacija v masi, fotokatalitična aktivnost, samočistilnost, protimikrobne lastnosti

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P2-0213
• Name: Tekstilije in ekologija