Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications of Graphitic Carbon Nitride

Sabu Thomas is a Professor and Director of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. Professor Thomas is internationally recognized for his contributions to polymer science and engineering, with his research interests encompassing polymer nanocomposites, elastomers, polymer blends, interpenetrating polymer networks, polymer membranes, green composites, nanocomposites, nanomedicine, and green nanotechnology. His groundbreaking inventions in polymer nanocomposites, polymer blends, green bionanotechnology, and nano-biomedical sciences have significantly advanced the development of new materials for the automotive, space, housing, and biomedical fields. Dr. Anas is the Honorary Director of Advanced Molecular Materials Research Centre and Assistant Professor of Polymer Chemistry at School of Chemical Sciences of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He has his Ph.D in organic synthesis from NIIST(CSIR) Trivandrum, India and has got post doctoral research experince at University of Paris-sud 11 and at Uppsala University Sweden. His reaerch contributions include the development of novel synthetic methodologies, asymmetric CH activation reactions and fiulvene based high spin organic materials. His research is currently focusing on the transition metal catalysed organic reactions, development of novel polymer supported catalysts, synthetic modifications and applications of polymers, studies of boron nitride and carbon nitride based polymer nano-composites. Dr. Anas has published 18 papers in the peer reviewed journals. Jomon Joy is a UGC-JRF doctoral Fellow. His area of interest is Polymer Science incorporating Nanomaterials. Topic of research is Thermoplastic Toughened Thermosetting Polymer nanocomposites at School of Chemical Sciences, M.G. University, Kottayam, in the group of Prof. Sabu Thomas. He has 4 years of experience in this field. His research areas include preparation of Epoxy based blends and nanocomposites and their applications.

1. Discovery and historical development of graphitic carbon nitride
2. Synthesis, Structure and properties
3. Engineering of hetero-junction photo catalyst
4. Graphitic carbon nitride-based nanocomposites
5. Graphitic carbon nitride/polymer nanocomposites
6. Photo catalytic water splitting and reduction of CO2
7. Photo catalytic pollutant degradation and bacterial disinfection
8. Flame retardancy and thermal properties of Graphitic Carbon Nitride based materials
9. g-C3N4 based sensors
10. Application in fuel cell and solar cell
11. Applications of graphitic carbon nitride as sorbent in analytical chemistry
12. Magnetically separable graphitic carbon nitride-based nanocomposites
13. Doping of graphitic carbon nitride for photocatalysis
14. Graphitic carbon nitride-based materials for biomedical applications