Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 11, Issue 1, 1(2015)

Fabrication of AgAu alloy-TiO2core-shell nanoparticles and their photocatalytic properties

Xiao-yu ZHANG1... Shu-long YUAN2, Yu-zhen YUAN1 and Xue LI2,* |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China
  • 2School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan 250022, China
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    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

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    Received: Oct. 30, 2014

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Oct. 12, 2017

    The Author Email: Xue LI (chm_lix@ujn.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s11801-015-4203-2

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