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Photocatalytic water-splitting

  • Photocatalytic water-splitting using TiO2

Photocatalytic activities: reduction/oxidation reactions of photo-generated carries in photocatalysts

▶ Applications of photocatalysts: water splitting, disinfection of water and air purification

▶ Advantages of TiO2: non-corrosive, environmentally friendly, abundant and cost effective

▶ Challenges of TiO2: recombination of photo-generated electron/hole pairs and inability to utilize visible light

  • Heterojunction of bottom-open TiO2 nanotubes

▶ Photocatalytic activities: reduction/oxidation reactions of photo-generated carries in photocatalysts

▶ Applications of photocatalysts: water splitting, disinfection of water and air purification

▶ Advantages of TiO2: non-corrosive, environmentally friendly, abundant and cost effective

▶ Challenges of TiO2: recombination of photo-generated electron/hole pairs and inability to utilize visible light

▶ Fabrication of NiO adsorbed TiO2 nanotubes are achieved chemical bath deposition (CBD) method.

▶ CBD of NiO particles: Ni   + OH   → Ni(OH)2 → NiO + H2O

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Poster

Bongsoo Kim et al., Photocatalytic Water-Splitting using Modified Heterojunction TiO2 Nanotube Arrays, CIMTEC, Italy (2014)

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