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CouplingTitaniaNanotubesandCarbonNanotubesToCreate

PhotocatalyticNanocomposites

BaijuK.Vijayan,†,‡,#NadaM.Dimitrijevic,§,⊥DanielFinkelstein-Shapiro,‡,∥JinsongWu,¶,□

andKimberlyA.Gray*,†,‡

†InstituteofCatalysisforEnergyProcesses,CenterforCatalysisandSurfaceScience,‡DepartmentofCivilEnvironmental

Engineering,∥DepartmentofChemistry,¶DepartmentofMaterialsScienceandEngineering,and□TheNUANCECenter,

NorthwesternUniversity,Evanston,Illinois60208,UnitedStates

§ChemicalSciencesandEngineeringDivision⊥CenterforNanoscaleMaterials,ArgonneNationalLaboratory,Illinois60439,

UnitedStates

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*SupportingInformation

:Atitaniananotube/single-wallcarbonnanotube

compositewaspreparedbyasimplehydrationdehydration

process.ThesecompositeswerecharacterizedusingX-raydif-

fractionandspectroscopictechniques(UV−visiblediffusere-

flectance,Raman,photoluminescence,andEPR)aswellas

electronmicroscopy(SEM,TEM).SEMandTEMimages

indicatedthatsingle-wallcarbonnanotubes(SWCNTs)were

interwovenwiththetitaniananotubes.Ramanspectrafurther

confirmedthechemicalinctionbetweenthetitanianano-

tubeandtheSWCNTinthecomposites.Thephotoactivityof

thesecompositeswastestedbythephotooxidationofacetaldehyde.

ThecompositesshowedenhancedphotoactivityunderbothvisibleandUVlightomparisonwithconventionaltitania(P25)

andcontrols.Thecompositehavingamassratioof1:50(SWCNT/TiNT)showedtheumphotocataly