Effect of Synthesis Method on the Nanostructure and Solar-Driven Photocatalytic Properties of TiO2-CuS Composites

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• 作者：Shuyan YuJincheng Liu ; Yan Zhou ; Richard D. Webster ; Xiaoli Yan
• 刊名：ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 6, 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：5
• 期：2
• 页码：1347-1357
• 全文大小：813K
• ISSN：2168-0485

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TiO₂ nanospheres were synthesized and then modified with copper(II) sulfide (CuS) to form TiO₂-CuS-a and TiO₂-CuS-b, respectively, by two different loading methods (direct deposition vs bifunctional linker coupling). The structural, morphological, and optical properties of the two different composites TiO₂-CuS-a and TiO₂-CuS-b were characterized and compared using FESEM, HRTEM, XRD, XPS, BET, and DRS techniques. The TiO₂-CuS-b with a regular “spiky-ball-like” structure exhibited enhanced disinfection ability, improved photodegradation performance of organic pollutants, and hydrogen evolution efficiency under solar and UV light as compared to TiO₂-CuS-a (direct deposition method) due to its higher effective combination with CuS through the bifunctional linking molecule, l-cysteine. The influence of CuS content, the structure, and the charge-transfer mechanism were systematically investigated by PL, CV, EIS, and EPR techniques.