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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
卷 112, 期 48, 页码 19040-19044出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp8068392
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- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG02-03ER15457/A003, DE-AC0206CH11357]
Coupled CuO-TiO2 nanocomposite photocatalysts were prepared by a deposition precipitation method and were characterized with a variety of techniques. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy was employed to study the local structures of surface/interfacial Cu2+ sites using Cu2+ as a sensitive paramagnetic probe. The addition of bulk CuO to TiO2 led to decreased photocatalytic efficiency in the degradation of methylene blue. However, doping with a very small amount of CuO (0.1 wt % copper loading) significantly enhanced the photocatalytic activity of TiO2. EPR study of the TiO2 surface revealed the presence of both highly dispersed CuO clusters and substitutional Cu2+ sites (Ti-O-Cu linkages) at 0.1 wt % copper loading. The data suggest that the Ti-O-Cu linkages contributed to the improved photooxidative activity of the 0.1% CuO-TiO2 nanocomposite. In contrast, at higher loadings the bulk form of CuO created charge recombination centers lowering the photoactivity of the composites.
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