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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 136, Issue 26, Pages 9280-9283Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja504802q
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- State Key Basic Research Program [2013CB934104]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21031001, 21210004, 91122018, 21371053, 21376065]
- Ministry of Education of China [708029]
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Mesoporous TiO2 has gained increasing interest because of its outstanding properties and promising applications in a wide range of fields. Herein, we report the facile synthesis of ordered mesoporous black TiO2 (OMBT) materials, which exhibit excellent photocatalytic hydrogen evolution performances. In this case, the employment of a thermally stable and high-surface-area mesoporous TiO2 as the hydrogenation precursor is the key for fabricating the OMBT materials, which not only facilitate H-2 gas diffusion into TiO2 and interaction with their structures but also maintain the ordered mesoporous structures as well as inhibit the phase transformation (from anatase to rutile) and crystal growth during hydrogenation at 500 degrees C. The resultant OMBT materials possess a relatively high surface area of similar to 124 m(2) g(-1) and a large pore size and pore volume of similar to 9.6 nm and 0.24 cm(3) respectively. More importantly, the OMBT materials can extend the photoresponse from ultraviolet to visible and infrared light regions and exhibit a high solar-driven hydrogen production rate (136.2 mu mol h(-1)), which is almost two times as high as that of pristine mesoporous TiO2 (76.6 mu mol h(-1)).
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