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Wuhan University of Technology
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About: Wuhan University of Technology is a education organization based out in Wuhan, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Microstructure & Photocatalysis. The organization has 40384 authors who have published 36724 publications receiving 575695 citations. The organization is also known as: WUT.
Topics: Microstructure, Photocatalysis, Ceramic, Adsorption, Sintering
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TL;DR: The results show that nitrogen and sulfur atoms were successfully incorporated into the lattice of TiO(2), which resulted in N-S-TiO (2) samples exhibiting stronger absorption in the UV-visible range with a red shift in the band gap transition, and first-principle DFT calculations further confirm that N and S co-dopants can induce the formation of new energy levels in the bands gap.
Abstract: Nitrogen and sulfur co-doped TiO(2) nanosheets with exposed {001} facets (N-S-TiO(2)) were prepared by a simple mixing-calcination method using the hydrothermally prepared TiO(2) nanosheets powder as a precursor and thiourea as a dopant. The resulting samples were characterized by transmission electron microscope, X-ray diffraction, N(2) adsorption-desorption isotherms, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy. The electronic properties of N,S co-doped TiO(2) were studied using the first-principle density functional theory (DFT). The photocatalytic activity of N-S-TiO(2) was evaluated by degradation of 4-chlorophenol (4-CP) aqueous solution under visible light irradiation. The production of hydroxyl radicals (˙OH) on the surface of visible-light-irradiated samples was detected by photoluminescence technique using terephthalic acid as a probe molecule. The results show that nitrogen and sulfur atoms were successfully incorporated into the lattice of TiO(2), which resulted in N-S-TiO(2) samples exhibiting stronger absorption in the UV-visible range with a red shift in the band gap transition. The first-principle DFT calculations further confirm that N and S co-dopants can induce the formation of new energy levels in the band gap, which is associated with the response of N-S-TiO(2) nanosheets to visible light irradiation. Surprisingly, pure TiO(2) nanosheets show the visible-light photocatalytic activity for the degradation of 4-CP mainly due to the substrate-surface complexation of TiO(2) and 4-CP, which results in extending absorption of titania to visible light region through ligand-to-titanium charge transfer. The N-S-TiO(2) samples studied exhibited an enhanced visible-light photocatalytic activity than pure TiO(2). Especially, the doped TiO(2) sample at the nominal weight ratio of thiourea to TiO(2) powder of 2 showed the highest photocatalytic activity, which was about twice greater than that of Degussa P25. The enhanced activity of N-S-TiO(2) can be primarily attributed to the synergetic effects of two factors including the intense absorption in the visible-light region and the exposure of highly reactive {001} facets of TiO(2) nanosheets. The former is beneficial for the photogeneration of electrons and holes participating in the photocatalytic reactions, and the latter facilitates adsorption of 4-CP molecules on the surface of TiO(2) nanosheets.
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TL;DR: This work shows not only the possibility of using CuO clusters as a substitute for noble metals in the photocatalytic H(2)-production but also demonstrates a new way for enhancing hydrogen production activity by quantum size effect.
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TL;DR: A comprehensive review highlights the recent developments of sulfonyl or sulfonamides based compounds in huge range of therapeutic applications such as antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, anticonvulsant, antitubercular, antidiabetic, antileishmanial, carbonic anhydrase, antimalarial, anticancer and other medicinal agents.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a simple metal organic frameworks (MOFs) based approach was developed to prepare bifunctional Co-NC@Mo2C complex catalysts for electrochemical water electrolysis.
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TL;DR: In this article, the photocatalytic activity of the as-prepared powders was evaluated using the photocATalytic oxidation of formaldehyde at room temperature under visible light irradiation and it was found that post-treatment temperature obviously influenced the visible-light photocatalysis activity and physical properties of Bi{sub 2}WO{sub 6} powders.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Jiaguo Yu | 178 | 730 | 113300 |
Charles M. Lieber | 165 | 521 | 132811 |
Dongyuan Zhao | 160 | 872 | 106451 |
Yu Huang | 136 | 1492 | 89209 |
Han Zhang | 130 | 970 | 58863 |
Chao Zhang | 127 | 3119 | 84711 |
Bo Wang | 119 | 2905 | 84863 |
Jianjun Liu | 112 | 1040 | 71032 |
Hong Wang | 110 | 1633 | 51811 |
Jimmy C. Yu | 108 | 350 | 36736 |
Søren Nielsen | 105 | 806 | 45995 |
Liqiang Mai | 104 | 616 | 39558 |
Bei Cheng | 104 | 260 | 33672 |
Feng Li | 104 | 995 | 60692 |
Qi Li | 102 | 1563 | 46762 |