Reduced graphene oxide supported titanium dioxide nanomaterials for the photocatalysis with long cycling life》.pdf

Applied Surface Science 355 (2015) 1289–1294 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Applied Surface Science j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e: w w w. elsev /locate/aps usc Reduced graphene oxide supported titanium dioxide nanomaterials for the photocatalysis with long cycling life Yuan-Cheng Cao a,b,∗,1, Zhongtian Fu c,∗,1, Wenjun Wei a,b , Linling Zou a,b , Tie Mi d,∗ , Dan He a,b , Chaolu Yan a , Xiyou Liu a , Ying Zhu a , Liuqing Chen a , Yuanjie Sun a a Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Chemical Materials and Devices of Ministry of Education, Jianghan University, Wuhan 430056, PR China b Flexible Display Materials and Technology Co-Innovation Centre of Hubei Province, Jianghan University, Wuhan 430056, PR China c College of Resource Civil Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, PR China d Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Fume and Dust Pollution Control,Jianghan University, Wuhan 430056, PR China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO) supported TiO2 (rGO@TiO2 ) as the photocatalyst was synthesized Received 3 July 2015 and evaluated. Graphene was oxided using chemical method and the AFM measurements showed that Received in revised form 5 August 2015 the thickness of the as-synthesized GO was 3–5 nm which indicates 4–6 layers of the resultant graphene Accepted 6 August 2015 oxide. 2 2 BET surface area showed 62.4 m /g for TiO and 247.3 m /g for rGO@TiO