Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 11, Issue 1, 1(2015)
Fabrication of AgAu alloy-TiO2core-shell nanoparticles and their photocatalytic properties
In this paper, for improving the photocatalytic efficiency of titania (TiO2) nanoparticles (NPs), AgAu alloy-TiO2core-shell NPs are fabricated via a sol-gel (SG) process in the presence of AgAu alloy NPs with block copolymer shells as templates. The photocatalytic activities of the AgAu-TiO2NPs on the photodecomposition of methylene blue (MB) are investigated. The AgAu-TiO2composite NPs coated with 5.0% titania related to block copolymers show higher photocatalytic activity than the other samples in which the titania contents are larger than 5.0%. The results indicate that the increase of the thickness of the TiO2 shell leads to the decrease of the photocatalytic activity.
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ZHANG Xiao-yu, YUAN Shu-long, YUAN Yu-zhen, LI Xue. Fabrication of AgAu alloy-TiO2core-shell nanoparticles and their photocatalytic properties[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2015, 11(1): 1
Received: Oct. 30, 2014
Accepted: --
Published Online: Oct. 12, 2017
The Author Email: Xue LI (chm_lix@ujn.edu.cn)