Crystalline Triazine/Heptazine‐Based Carbon Nitride With Built‐in Electric Field for Synergistic Photoproduction of Hydrogen Peroxide and Xylose Oxidation

ABSTRACT Photocatalytic coupling of biomass oxidation with H 2 O 2 production offers a sustainable route for solar‐to‐chemical conversion, but its efficiency is limited by slow charge separation and surface reactions. Herein, we report a KCl‐assisted co‐precipitation–calcination method to synthesize highly crystalline carbon nitride (MCAK) featuring a triazine/heptazine‐coupled framework and surface‐enriched atomic K dispersion. This unique structure introduces cyano defects and creates a strong built‐in electric field that reduces the exciton binding energy from 116.50 meV (bulk carbon nitride, BCN) to 74.57 meV, thereby promoting charge separation. As a result, MCAK achieves an exceptional H 2 O 2 production rate of 12470.4 µmol/(g × h) under white light in O 2 —50.6 and 37.8 times higher than that of BCN and supramolecular carbon nitride (MCA), respectively—with negligible decay in air. Simultaneously, it oxidizes xylose to xylonic acid with 73.3% selectivity. Mechanism studies reveal that the performance originates from enhanced O 2 adsorption and an optimized two‐electron oxygen reduction pathway driven by the built‐in electric field. This work demonstrates a synergistic design strategy that integrates crystallinity control, intramolecular heterojunction engineering, and built‐in field intensification for efficient bifunctional photocatalysis.

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Advanced Functional Materials
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2026-08-26
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https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.78017
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Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
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Crystalline Triazine/Heptazine‐Based Carbon Nitride With Built‐in Electric Field for Synergistic Photoproduction of Hydrogen Peroxide and Xylose Oxidation

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Crystalline Triazine/Heptazine‐Based Carbon Nitride With Built‐in Electric Field for Synergistic Photoproduction of Hydrogen Peroxide and Xylose Oxidation

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ABSTRACT Photocatalytic coupling of biomass oxidation with H 2 O 2 production offers a sustainable route for solar‐to‐chemical conversion, but its efficiency is limited by slow charge separation and surface reactions. Herein, we report a KCl‐assisted co‐precipitation–calcination method to synthesize highly crystalline carbon nitride (MCAK) featuring a triazine/heptazine‐coupled framework and surface‐enriched atomic K dispersion. This unique structure introduces cyano defects and creates a strong built‐in electric field that reduces the exciton binding energy from 116.50 meV (bulk carbon nitride, BCN) to 74.57 meV, thereby promoting charge separation. As a result, MCAK achieves an exceptional H 2 O 2 production rate of 12470.4 µmol/(g × h) under white light in O 2 —50.6 and 37.8 times higher than that of BCN and supramolecular carbon nitride (MCA), respectively—with negligible decay in air. Simultaneously, it oxidizes xylose to xylonic acid with 73.3% selectivity. Mechanism studies reveal that the performance originates from enhanced O 2 adsorption and an optimized two‐electron oxygen reduction pathway driven by the built‐in electric field. This work demonstrates a synergistic design strategy that integrates crystallinity control, intramolecular heterojunction engineering, and built‐in field intensification for efficient bifunctional photocatalysis.

Advanced Functional Materials
Anyang Normal University (CN)
Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province
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