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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
卷 2, 期 16, 页码 5703-5709出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3ta15114j
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- National University of Singapore (NUS) [R-263-000-653-731/654-112, R-263-000-A96-305]
In this paper, we demonstrate a series of metal-free and inexpensive TiO2/carbon dot (CD) nanocomposites via facile hydrothermal synthesis from bidentate complexes of a green carbon source, vitamin C (VC). Other than the importance of deriving CDs from alternate carbon materials instead of graphitic precursors, the in situ transformed CDs from VC ensure the formation of chemically coupled heterostructures, TiO2/CDs, which serve as efficient photocatalysts exhibiting a higher H-2 evolution rate from photocatalytic reactions up to 9.7 times than that of bare TiO2. Interestingly, the H-2 evolution rate can effectively be tuned by VC amounts, hydrothermal temperatures and reaction durations. The mechanism of the enhanced H-2 evolution rate was also discussed, in which the synergetic effects of the hydrothermal treatment along with the favourable electron transfer ability and upconverted photoluminescence of CDs contribute to the improved photocatalytic behaviour.
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