Journal
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 447, Issue -, Pages 757-766Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2018.04.051
Keywords
Graphitic carbon nitride; NiTiO3; Thermal formation; Photocatalysis; Composite materials
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Funding
- Basic Science Research Program
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology [2015R1D1A1A09058836]
- Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning [2018R1A2B6004219]
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The development of efficient visible-light driven photocatalysts has attracted considerable attention in environmental protection and remediation. In this study, the facile thermal polymerization of dicyandiamide (DCDA) to graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) in the presence of nickel titanium trioxide (NiTiO3 ) was investigated for fabricating g-C3N4 and NiTiO3 composite (CNT) photocatalysts to understand the influence of the presence of NiTiO3 on the thermal formation of g-C3N4 layers from DCDA and to find an optimal processing temperature for fabricating CNT photocatalysts. To examine the effect of NiTiO3 on the fabrication of CNT photocatalysts, a gas phase environment (flowing air or nitrogen) and different processing temperatures were employed as preparation variables to control the properties of the CNT photocatalysts. In addition, the CNT photocatalysts were applied for the visible light driven photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue to evaluate their photocatalytic performances. The CNT photocatalyst prepared at T = 500 degrees C showed the highest photocatalytic activity, which was caused by the optimal morphology of g-C3N4 in the composite photocatalysts. The NiTiO3 inorganic phase in the composite photocatalysts acted as a catalyst to accelerate the thermal polymerization to form the g-C3N4 structure and as a promoter to increase the photocatalytic activity during photodegradation. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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