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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
卷 50, 期 10, 页码 5234-5242出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b00730
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- National Science Foundation of China [51208488, 21261160489, 51538011]
- Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology of the Ministry of Education of China
TiO2 is a typical semiconductor and has been extensively used as an effective photocatalyst for environmental pollution control. But it could not be used as an electrochemical reductive catalyst because of its low electric conductivity and electrocatalytic activity. In this work, however, we demonstrate that TiO2 can act as an excellent cathodic electrocatalyst when its crystal shape, exposed facet and oxygen-stoichiometry are finely tailored by the local geometric and electronic structures. The defect-engineered TiO2-x single crystals dominantly exposed by high-energy {001} facets exhibits a high cathodic activity and great stability for electrochemical reduction of nitrobenzene, a typical refractory pollutant with high toxicity in environment. The single crystalline structure, the high-energy {001} facet and the defective oxygen vacancy of the defect-engineered TiO2-x single crystals are found to be mainly responsible for their cathodic superiority. With the findings in this work, a more practical non-Pd cathodic electrocatalyst could be prepared and applied for electrocatalytic reduction of refractory pollutants in water and wastewater, and extend the promising applications of TiO2 in the fields of environmental science.
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