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Triazine-based graphitc carbon nitride (TGCN) featured in “Stanene the next miracle material?” – by Michael Gross
“Ten years after the discovery of graphene, analogous two-dimensional sheets made from other elements, including tin, are emerging as competitors for the miracle material.” – Gross, M.
Chemistry & Industry 2014, 78, 24. [DOI: 10.1002/cind.789_5.x]
Highlight for the article: Algara-Siller, G.; Severin, N.; Chong, S. Y.; Björkman, T.; Palgrave, R. G.; Laybourn, A.; Antonietti, M.; Khimyak, Y. Z.; Krasheninnikov, A. V.; Rabe, J. P.; Kaiser, U.; Cooper,* A. I.; Thomas, A.; Bojdys,* M. J. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2014, 53, 7450–7455, [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201402191]
STARS program is open for applications
STARS program call for applications available at the ‘Functional Nanomaterials’ group, Department of Organic Chemistry, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Carbon nitride vs. graphene – now in 2D!
Cooper, A. I.; Bojdys,* M. J. Materials Today 2014, 17, 468–469.
A polymer laboratory might not be your first port-of-call for replacement materials for silicon in sensors and transistors, but polymer chemistry and organic synthesis may have much to offer here: enter the world of modular chemical design of new 2-dimensional materials.
DOI: 10.1016/j.mattod.2014.10.001 [Download]
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“gt-C3N4—The First Stable Binary Carbon(IV) Nitride” – by Prof. Dr. Edwin Kroke
“Twenty-five years ago a diamondlike C3N4 phase was postulated. After many unsuccessful attempts the synthesis of an s-triazine-based modification was accomplished, which is reported to show interesting semiconducting and catalytic properties similar to that of graphene and related graphitic C/N/H phases.” – Prof. Dr. Edwin Kroke
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2014. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201406427]
Highlight for the article: Algara-Siller, G.; Severin, N.; Chong, S. Y.; Björkman, T.; Palgrave, R. G.; Laybourn, A.; Antonietti, M.; Khimyak, Y. Z.; Krasheninnikov, A. V.; Rabe, J. P.; Kaiser, U.; Cooper,* A. I.; Thomas, A.; Bojdys,* M. J. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2014, 53, 7450–7455, [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201402191]
Frontispiece: Triazine-Based Graphitic Carbon Nitride: a Two-Dimensional Semiconductor
Algara-Siller, G.; Severin, N.; Chong, S. Y.; Björkman, T.; Palgrave, R. G.; Laybourn, A.; Antonietti, M.; Khimyak, Y. Z.; Krasheninnikov, A. V.; Rabe, J. P.; Kaiser, U.; Cooper,* A. I.; Thomas, A.; Bojdys,* M. J. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2014, 53, 7450–7455.
Graphitic Carbon Nitride
In their Communication on page 7450 ff., A. I. Cooper, M. J. Bojdys, et al. report crystalline thin films of triazine-based graphitic carbon nitride (TGCN). TGCN is structurally similar to graphite but it is a semiconductor, and the thin films display a direct bandgap between 1.6 and 2.0 eV.
Openings in the ‘Functional Nanomaterials’ group
Call for applications available at the ‘Functional Nanomaterials’ group, Department of Organic Chemistry, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic starting at the earliest from August 2014.
“Designer 2D material may take us beyond graphene’s limits” – by Chris Lee
“A decade of work reveals chemically inert 2D semiconductor with decent bandgap.”
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Chris Lee / Chris writes for Ars Technica’s science section. A physicist by day and science writer by night, he specializes in quantum physics and optics. He lives and works in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Algara-Siller, G.; Severin, N.; Chong, S. Y.; Björkman, T.; Palgrave, R. G.; Laybourn, A.; Antonietti, M.; Khimyak, Y. Z.; Krasheninnikov, A. V.; Rabe, J. P.; Kaiser, U.; Cooper,* A. I.; Thomas, A.; Bojdys,* M. J. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2014, 53, 7450–7455, [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201402191]
Press highlights for triazine-based graphitic carbon nitride (TGCN)
- Electronics Weekly – Improving transistors with graphene-type material by Alun Williams
- Before It’s News – Researchers fabricate graphene-like TGCN for the first time
- Graphene-info – Researchers fabricate graphene-like TGCN for the first time
- eWallstreeter – New graphene-type material created
- Nanowerk – Chemists create new graphene-type material
- Phys.Org – New graphene-type material created
- e! Science News – New graphene-type material created
- Nature World News – Researchers Create a Graphene-Like Material
- Engineering Specifier – New graphene-type material created
Algara-Siller, G.; Severin, N.; Chong, S. Y.; Björkman, T.; Palgrave, R. G.; Laybourn, A.; Antonietti, M.; Khimyak, Y. Z.; Krasheninnikov, A. V.; Rabe, J. P.; Kaiser, U.; Cooper,* A. I.; Thomas, A.; Bojdys,* M. J. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2014, 53, 7450–7455. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201402191