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Preparation of TiO(2)/Carbon Nanotubes/Reduced Graphene Oxide Composites with Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity for the Degradation of Rhodamine B

In this report, ternary titanium dioxide (TiO(2))/carbon nanotubes (CNTs)/reduced graphene oxide (rGO) composites were fabricated by a facile and environmentally friendly one-pot solvethermal method for the removal of Rhodamine B (RhB). Its structures were represented by X-ray powder diffraction (XR...

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Autores principales: Huang, Yanzhen, Chen, Dongping, Hu, Xinling, Qian, Yingjiang, Li, Dongxu
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6027058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29899274
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano8060431
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author Huang, Yanzhen
Chen, Dongping
Hu, Xinling
Qian, Yingjiang
Li, Dongxu
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Chen, Dongping
Hu, Xinling
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Li, Dongxu
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description In this report, ternary titanium dioxide (TiO(2))/carbon nanotubes (CNTs)/reduced graphene oxide (rGO) composites were fabricated by a facile and environmentally friendly one-pot solvethermal method for the removal of Rhodamine B (RhB). Its structures were represented by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), Raman spectrometry, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The photocatalytic performance was tested by the degradation efficiency of RhB under UV-vis light irradiation. The experimental results indicated that photocatalytic activity improved as the ratio of CNTs:TiO(2) ranged from 0.5% to 3% but reduced when the content increased to 5% and 10%, and the TiO(2)/CNTs/rGO-3% composites showed superior photocatalytic activity compared with the binary ones (i.e., TiO(2)/CNTs, TiO(2)/rGO) and pristine TiO(2). The rate constant k of the pseudo first-order reaction was about 1.5 times that of TiO(2). The improved photocatalytic activity can be attributed to the addition of rGO and CNTs, which reduced the recombination of photo-induced electron-hole pairs, and the fact that CNTs and rGO, with a high specific surface area and high adsorption ability to efficiently adsorb O(2), H(2)O and organics, can increase the hydroxyl content of the photocatalyst surface.
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spelling pubmed-60270582018-07-13 Preparation of TiO(2)/Carbon Nanotubes/Reduced Graphene Oxide Composites with Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity for the Degradation of Rhodamine B Huang, Yanzhen Chen, Dongping Hu, Xinling Qian, Yingjiang Li, Dongxu Nanomaterials (Basel) Article In this report, ternary titanium dioxide (TiO(2))/carbon nanotubes (CNTs)/reduced graphene oxide (rGO) composites were fabricated by a facile and environmentally friendly one-pot solvethermal method for the removal of Rhodamine B (RhB). Its structures were represented by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), Raman spectrometry, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The photocatalytic performance was tested by the degradation efficiency of RhB under UV-vis light irradiation. The experimental results indicated that photocatalytic activity improved as the ratio of CNTs:TiO(2) ranged from 0.5% to 3% but reduced when the content increased to 5% and 10%, and the TiO(2)/CNTs/rGO-3% composites showed superior photocatalytic activity compared with the binary ones (i.e., TiO(2)/CNTs, TiO(2)/rGO) and pristine TiO(2). The rate constant k of the pseudo first-order reaction was about 1.5 times that of TiO(2). The improved photocatalytic activity can be attributed to the addition of rGO and CNTs, which reduced the recombination of photo-induced electron-hole pairs, and the fact that CNTs and rGO, with a high specific surface area and high adsorption ability to efficiently adsorb O(2), H(2)O and organics, can increase the hydroxyl content of the photocatalyst surface. MDPI 2018-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6027058/ /pubmed/29899274 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano8060431 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Huang, Yanzhen
Chen, Dongping
Hu, Xinling
Qian, Yingjiang
Li, Dongxu
Preparation of TiO(2)/Carbon Nanotubes/Reduced Graphene Oxide Composites with Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity for the Degradation of Rhodamine B
title Preparation of TiO(2)/Carbon Nanotubes/Reduced Graphene Oxide Composites with Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity for the Degradation of Rhodamine B
title_full Preparation of TiO(2)/Carbon Nanotubes/Reduced Graphene Oxide Composites with Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity for the Degradation of Rhodamine B
title_fullStr Preparation of TiO(2)/Carbon Nanotubes/Reduced Graphene Oxide Composites with Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity for the Degradation of Rhodamine B
title_full_unstemmed Preparation of TiO(2)/Carbon Nanotubes/Reduced Graphene Oxide Composites with Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity for the Degradation of Rhodamine B
title_short Preparation of TiO(2)/Carbon Nanotubes/Reduced Graphene Oxide Composites with Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity for the Degradation of Rhodamine B
title_sort preparation of tio(2)/carbon nanotubes/reduced graphene oxide composites with enhanced photocatalytic activity for the degradation of rhodamine b
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6027058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29899274
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano8060431
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