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The reasonable employment of cocatalyst in photocatalysis can effectively promote the photocatalytic H-2 production activity. In this study, carbon hollow spheres (C), as a good conductive nonmetallic material, have been utilized as a novel cocatalyst and a matrix for loading the Cu-doped-TiO2 nanoparticles by a successive hydrothermal method and metal molten salt method. The Cu-doped-TiO2 nanoparticles were tightly anchored on the surface of carbon hollow sphere to form a zero-dimensional/three dimensional (0D/3D) Cu-doped-TiO2/C heterojunction. The optimal Cu-doped-TiO2/C heterojunction demonstrated greatly enhanced photocatalytic H-2 generation activity (14.4 mmol.g(-1). h(-1)) compared with TiO2 (0.33 mmol.g(-1).h(-1)) and TiO2/C (0.7 mmol.g(-1).h(-1)). The performance improvement was mainly due to the synergistic effect of carbon hollow sphere cocatalyst and Cu-doping, the Cu-doping in TiO2 nanoparticles can minimize charge recombination and enhance the available photoex-cited electrons, while the 3D carbon hollow spheres can act as electron traps to accelerate the charge separation and offer abundant active sites for solar water splitting reaction.
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ISSN: 1001-0521
CN: 11-2112/TF
Year: 2022
Issue: 6
Volume: 41
Page: 2063-2073
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JCR@2022
9 . 6 0 0
JCR@2023
ESI Discipline: MATERIALS SCIENCE;
ESI HC Threshold:91
JCR Journal Grade:1
CAS Journal Grade:1
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