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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 18, 期 16, 页码 11157-11167出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5cp04457j
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- Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi, India [SERB/F/4663/2013-14]
- AvH foundation
CeO2 nanoparticles (NPs) with average particle size of similar to 17 nm were grown on graphene sheets by simply mixing cerium chloride as the Ce precursor with graphene oxide (GO) in distilled water and the simultaneous reduction of GO to reduced graphene oxide (rGO), followed by a one-step hydrothermal treatment at 150 degrees C. A unique blue to green tuneable luminescence was observed as a function of the excitation wavelength. With this method, significant applications of rGO-CeO2 nanocomposites in many optical devices could be realized. The photocatalytic activity of the as-synthesized CeO2 and rGO-CeO2 nanocomposite was investigated by monitoring the degradation of methylene blue (MB) dye under direct sunlight irradiation. The rGO-CeO2 nanocomposite exhibited excellent photocatalytic activity compared to CeO2 NPs by degrading 90% of the MB dye in 10 min irradiation under sunlight. This property of rGO-CeO2 nanocomposites was ascribed to the significant suppression of the recombination rate of photo-generated electron-hole pairs due to charge transfer between rGO sheets and CeO2 NPs and the smaller optical band-gap in the rGO-CeO2 nanocomposite.
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