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Photocatalysis
About: Photocatalysis is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 67088 publications have been published within this topic receiving 2145233 citations. The topic is also known as: photocatalyst.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a facile in situ precipitation method was used to obtain high photocatalytic activity for the decolorization of methyl orange (MO) under visible-light irradiation.
Abstract: Highly efficient visible-light-driven g-C3N4/Ag3PO4 hybrid photocatalysts with different weight ratios of g-C3N4 were prepared by a facile in situ precipitation method and characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectrometry and UV–vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. Under visible-light irradiation (>440 nm), g-C3N4/Ag3PO4 photocatalysts displayed the higher photocatalytic activity than pure g-C3N4 and Ag3PO4 for the decolorization of methyl orange (MO). Among the hybrid photocatalysts, g-C3N4/Ag3PO4 with 25 wt % of g-C3N4 exhibited the highest photocatalytic activity for the decolorization of MO. The complete decolorization of MO was achieved for only 5 min of visible-light irradiation. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy results revealed that metallic Ag particles on the surface of g-C3N4/Ag3PO4 hybrid were formed during the catalysts preparation. In addition, the quenching effects of different scavengers displayed tha...
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TL;DR: It is shown that coupling a plasmonic nanoantenna directly to catalytic nanoparticles enables the light-induced generation of hot carriers within the catalyst nanoparticles, transforming the entire complex into an efficient light-controlled reactive catalyst.
Abstract: Metallic nanoparticles with strong optically resonant properties behave as nanoscale optical antennas, and have recently shown extraordinary promise as light-driven catalysts. Traditionally, however, heterogeneous catalysis has relied upon weakly light-absorbing metals such as Pd, Pt, Ru, or Rh to lower the activation energy for chemical reactions. Here we show that coupling a plasmonic nanoantenna directly to catalytic nanoparticles enables the light-induced generation of hot carriers within the catalyst nanoparticles, transforming the entire complex into an efficient light-controlled reactive catalyst. In Pd-decorated Al nanocrystals, photocatalytic hydrogen desorption closely follows the antenna-induced local absorption cross-section of the Pd islands, and a supralinear power dependence strongly suggests that hot-carrier-induced desorption occurs at the Pd island surface. When acetylene is present along with hydrogen, the selectivity for photocatalytic ethylene production relative to ethane is strongly enhanced, approaching 40:1. These observations indicate that antenna-reactor complexes may greatly expand possibilities for developing designer photocatalytic substrates.
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TL;DR: The 10Ni2P@CdS catalyst as mentioned in this paper improved the anti-photocorrosion resistance of CdS by coating Ni2P shell and assembling an artificial gill to remove newly formed O2 from water.
Abstract: CdS photocorrosion seriously impeded its application in photocatalysis, especially for water splitting. Here we report new strategies to improve CdS photocorrosion resistance properties significantly by coating Ni2P shell and assembling an artificial gill to remove newly formed O2 from water. Ni2P@CdS catalyst can achieve the over-all water splitting under visible light irradiation without addition of any sacrifice reagent and noble metal loading. Compared with CdS itself, the 10Ni2P@CdS photocatalyst exhibits excellent photocatalytic activity for hydrogen evolution (251.4 μmol of H2 in 180 min) with a high AQE (3.89% at 430 nm). This catalyst also presents high photocurrent, low overpotential (−0.32 V vs SCE), and long fluorescence lifetime (16.27 ns) of excited charges. Cd2+ ions concentration measured by ICP and long term stability results verified the anti-photocorrosion role of Ni2P shell on CdS during water splitting reaction. The activity and stability of 10Ni2P@CdS is even superior to typical 1Pt@CdS catalyst. Our results confirm CdS can be an active catalyst for photocatalytic hydrogen generation from water under visible irradiation if its stability is enhanced by protection of anti-photocorrosion over-coating shell and removing the nascent formed oxygen from water.
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TL;DR: The structure of NiO-SrTiO/sub 3/ powder has been studied by spectroscopic methods such as SEM, TEM, EXAFS, XANES, and XPS as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The structure of NiO-SrTiO/sub 3/ powder, which is a photocatalyst for the decomposition of water into H/sub 2/ and O/sub 2/, has been studied by spectroscopic methods such as SEM, TEM, EXAFS, XANES, and XPS. It has been clearly shown that the active catalyst has a peculiar structure; that is, nickel metal exists at the interface of NiO and SrTiO/sub 3/. The surface of NiO changes further into Ni(OH)/sub 2/ during the photocatalytic reaction in water. 31 references, 7 figures, 2 tables.
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TL;DR: In this article, a novel, in situ simultaneous reduction-hydrolysis technique (SRH) is developed for fabrication of TiO2--graphene hybrid nanosheets in a binary ethylenediamine (En)/H2O solvent.
Abstract: A novel, in situ simultaneous reduction-hydrolysis technique (SRH) is developed for fabrication of TiO2--graphene hybrid nanosheets in a binary ethylenediamine (En)/H2O solvent. The SRH technique is based on the mechanism of the simultaneous reduction of graphene oxide (GO) into graphene by En and the formation of TiO2 nanoparticles through hydrolysis of titanium (IV) (ammonium lactato) dihydroxybis, subsequently in situ loading onto graphene through chemical bonds (Ti–O–C bond) to form 2D sandwich-like nanostructure. The dispersion of TiO2 hinders the collapse and restacking of exfoliated sheets of graphene during reduction process. In contrast with prevenient G-TiO2 nanocomposites, abundant Ti3+ is detected on the surface of TiO2 of the present hybrid, caused by reducing agent En. The Ti3+ sites on the surface can serve as sites for trapping photogenerated electrons to prevent recombination of electron–hole pairs. The high photocatalytic activity of G-TiO2 hybrid is confirmed by photocatalytic conversion of CO2 to valuable hydrocarbons (CH4 and C2H6) in the presence of water vapor. The synergistic effect of the surface-Ti3+ sites and graphene favors the generation of C2H6, and the yield of the C2H6 increases with the content of incorporated graphene. The work may open a new doorway for new significant application of graphene for selectively catalytic C–C coupling reaction
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