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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 16, Issue 46, Pages 25321-25329Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4cp04057k
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- Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [14JJ1015]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51178173, 51478171, 51202065]
- Program for Innovation Research Team in University [IRT1238]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University [11-0126]
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An artful graphene sheltering engineering onto TiO2 nanotube array for perfect inhibition of CdS photocorrosion (RGO/CdS-TiO2 NT) has been developed by a one-step electrodeposition method. The CdS photocorrosion driven by both holes and radicals has been systematically investigated and identified. The RGO layer provides a perfect protection to CdS through (i) blocking the attack of active species especially (OH)-O-center dot radicals and (ii) offering a closed electron-rich microenvironment where the stored electrons RGO(e(-)) not only reduce intermediate species S-center dot to S-2 but also compensate the valence band of CdS for its loss of electrons to alleviate CdS photocorrosion from oxidation by holes. The photocatalyst exhibits extremely high stability. RGO/CdS-TiO2 NT shows high visible-light photocatalytic activity for the degradations of organic dye methylene blue (MB), industrial chemical p-nitrophenol (PNP) and herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D). This work provides a new insight into the protection of photosensitive semiconductors from photocorrosion.
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