Chungui Tian

TL;DR: The phosphorus-doped hexagonal tubular carbon nitride with the layered stacking structure was obtained from a hexagonal rod-like single crystal supramolecular precursor (monoclinic, C2/m) with a high hydrogen evolution rate and an apparent quantum efficiency better than most of bulk g-C3 N4 reported.

TL;DR: In this paper, porous graphene-like nanosheets (PGNSs) with a large surface area were synthesized for the first time via an easy and cost-effective SAG (simultaneous activation-graphitization) route from renewable biomass waste coconut shell, which can provide low-resistant pathways and short ion-diffusion channels for energy storage, and thus is expected to be an excellent material for high-power supercapacitors.

TL;DR: In this article, a nitrogen-doped graphene nanosheets (NGS) with the nitrogen level as high as 10.13 atom% were synthesized via a simple hydrothermal reaction of graphene oxide (GO) and urea.

TL;DR: A simple bottom-up method to synthesize porous few-layer C3N4 is reported, which involves molecule self-assembly into layered precursors, alcohol molecules intercalation, and subsequent thermal-induced exfoliation and polycondensation, which exhibits a 26-fold higher hydrogen evolution activity than bulk counterpart.

TL;DR: This work shows that the modification with a second anion is powerful way to design new catalysts for HER, while remaining good stability in accelerated durability testing.