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Electrophoretic fabrication of highly robust, efficient, and benign heterojunction photoelectrocatalysts based on graphene-quantum-dot sensitized TiO2 nanotube arrays

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The controllable electrophoretic fabrication of highly robust, efficient, and benign photoelectrocatalysts based on graphene-quantum-dot sensitized TiO2 nanotube arrays was reported in this article.
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We report the controllable electrophoretic fabrication of highly robust, efficient, and benign photoelectrocatalysts based on graphene-quantum-dot sensitized TiO2 nanotube arrays. Their catalytic activities under visible-light irradiation remain steady for continuous cycles (400 min) with a negligible decrease, whereas CdS and CdSe sensitized TiO2 nanotube arrays show a high cycling instability due to serious photooxidization.

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Waltzing with the Versatile Platform of Graphene to Synthesize Composite Photocatalysts.

TL;DR: Composite Photocatalysts Nan Zhang,‚‡ Min-Quan Yang,†,‡ Siqi Liu,*,‡ Yugang Sun,* and Yi-Jun Xu*,† are authors of this paper.
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Graphene Quantum Dots

TL;DR: Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) are nanometer-sized fragments of graphene that show unique properties, which makes them interesting candidates for a whole range of new applications as discussed by the authors.
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Gram-scale synthesis of single-crystalline graphene quantum dots with superior optical properties

TL;DR: The gram-scale synthesis of single-crystalline GQDs by a facile molecular fusion route under mild and green hydrothermal conditions is reported, which bestowed with excellent optical properties such as brightexcitonic fluorescence, strong excitonic absorption bands extending to the visible region, large molar extinction coefficients and long-term photostability.
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Hybrid nanostructures based on titanium dioxide for enhanced photocatalysis

TL;DR: The design and development of efficient TiO 2 -based, hybrid, nanostructured photocatalysts has recently been receiving substantial attention for environmental remediation due to their excellent physiochemical properties as mentioned in this paper.
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Inorganic-modified semiconductor TiO2 nanotube arrays for photocatalysis

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the key mechanisms of photocatalysis, highlights the recent developments pertaining to pure TiO2 nanotube arrays and modified by non-metals, metals and semiconductors, and their applications in the photocatalytic degradation of organic dyes.
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Hydrothermal route for cutting graphene sheets into blue-luminescent graphene quantum dots

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TL;DR: This work reports on electron transport in quantum dot devices carved entirely from graphene, demonstrating the possibility of molecular-scale electronics based on graphene.
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