Chinese Journal of Catalysis ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (12): 2103-2108.DOI: 10.1016/S1872-2067(15)60996-2

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Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen generation of mesoporous rutile TiO2 single crystal with wholly exposed {111} facets

Tingting Wua, Xiangdong Kanga, Mohammad W. Kadib, Iqbal Ismailb, Gang Liua, Hui-Ming Chenga,b   

  1. a Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, Liaoning, China;
    b Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
  • Received:2015-08-28 Revised:2015-09-24 Online:2015-12-02 Published:2015-12-07
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    This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, 2014CB239401), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51422210, 51172243), and the Deanship of Scientific Research (50-130-35-HiCi), King Abdulaziz University.

Abstract:

The development of semiconductor photocatalysts with highly reactive facets exposed has great potential to improve their photocatalytic reactivity. We report the synthesis of mesoporous rutile TiO2 single crystals with tunable ratios of {110} and {111} facets through the seeded-template hydrothermal method. With increasing the amount of morphology controlling agent NaF, the facet ratio of {111} to {110} increases, and eventually the mesoporous rutile TiO2 single crystals with wholly exposed {111} reactive facets are obtained. The resultant faceted mesoporous single crystals exhibit a superior photocatalytic performance of hydrogen evolution to mesoporous single crystals with a large percentage of thermodynamically stable {110} facets, as well as the solid rutile single crystals.

Key words: Titania, Photocatalyst, Mesoporous, Single-crystal, Hydrogen generation