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Pt-Modified Interfacial Engineering for Enhanced Photocatalytic Performance of 3D Ordered Macroporous TiO2

Journal

CRYSTALS
Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cryst12060778

Keywords

3D ordered macropores; TiO2; Pt loading; photocatalysis; Schottky junction

Funding

  1. Startup Fund of Advanced Talents of Yunnan Normal University [00900202020503157]

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In this study, a three-dimensionally ordered macroporous Pt-loaded TiO2 photocatalyst (3DOM Pt/TiO2) was successfully synthesized, exhibiting features such as uniform 3D ordered macroporous skeletons, high crystallinity, large porosity, and an internal electric field. These unique characteristics enable the 3DOM Pt/TiO2 catalyst to possess a large surface area for photocatalytic reactions, rapid mass transfer, and efficient suppression of recombination, resulting in significantly enhanced photocatalytic activity.
Narrowing the band gap and increasing the photodegradation efficiency of TiO2-based photocatalysts are very important for their wide application in environment-related fields such as photocatalytic degradation of toxic pollutants in wastewater. Herein, a three-dimensionally ordered macroporous Pt-loaded TiO2 photocatalyst (3DOM Pt/TiO2) has been successfully synthesized using a facile colloidal crystal-template method. The resultant composite combines several morphological/structural advantages, including uniform 3D ordered macroporous skeletons, high crystallinity, large porosity and an internal electric field formed at Pt/TiO2 interfaces. These unique features enable the 3DOM Pt/TiO2 to possess a large surface for photocatalytic reactions and fast diffusion for mass transfer of reactants as well as efficient suppression of recombination for photogenerated electronhole pairs in TiO2. Thus, the 3DOM Pt/TiO2 exhibits significantly enhanced photocatalytic activity. Typically, 88% of RhB can be degraded over the 3DOM Pt/TiO2 photocatalyst under visible light irradiation (lambda >= 420 nm) within 100 min, much higher than that of the commercial TiO2 nanoparticles (only 37%). The underlying mechanism for the enhanced photocatalytic activity of 3DOM Pt/TiO2 has been further analyzed based on energy band theory and ascribed to the formation of Schottky-type Pt/TiO2 junctions. The proposed method herein can provide new references for further improving the photocatalytic efficiency of other photocatalysts via rational structural/morphological engineering.

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