• 文献标题:   Influence of heat treatment on thermally-reduced graphene oxide/TiO(2) composites for photocatalytic applications
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   NGUYENPHAN TD, PHAM VH, YUN H, KIM EJ, HUR SH, CHUNG JS, SHIN EW
  • 作者关键词:   tio 2, reduced graphene oxide, nanocomposite, dye, photocatalytic degradation, porous material
  • 出版物名称:   KOREAN JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
  • ISSN:   0256-1115
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Ulsan
  • 被引频次:   12
  • DOI:   10.1007/s11814-011-0123-4
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

Thermally-reduced graphene oxide/TiO(2) composites (TRGO/Ti) were prepared by the thermal reduction of graphene oxide/TiO(2) composite that was obtained from a simple, environmentally friendly, one-step colloidal blending method. The changes in structural and textural properties as well as their corresponding photocatalytic activities were investigated as a function of calcination temperature. The presence of stacked TRGO sheets significantly retarded both the aggregation and the crystalline phase transformation of TiO(2) as increasing the temperature from 200 to 600 degrees C. TRGO/Ti composites exhibited higher photocatalytic activity for the degradation of methylene blue in comparison with pure TiO(2) due to the increase in specific surface area and the formation of pi-pi conjugations between dye compounds and aromatic regions of TRGO. However, increasing the calcination temperature resulted in the lower photoactivity and slower kinetics, which can be ascribed to the decrease in surface area, the reduction of oxygen vacancies, and the loss of functional groups at the edges or on the basal planes of the TRGO sheets.