A novel fabrication approach for three-dimensional hierarchical porous metal oxide/carbon nanocomposites for enhanced solar photocatalytic performance. Issue 9 (20th April 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Liu, Huan; Liu, Xuan; Mu, Shanli; Wang, Shuang; Wang, Shulan; Li, Li; Giannelis, Emmanuel P.
• Is Part Of: Catalysis science & technology. Volume 7:Issue 9(2017)
• Page Start: 1965
• Page End: 1970
• Publication Date: 2017-04-20
• Subjects: Catalysis -- Periodicals; 541.395
• DOI: 10.1039/c7cy00317j
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2044-4753

Abstract

Abstract : A novel approach for the fabrication of metal oxide/C composites with a hierarchical porous structure is proposed. Abstract : A facile fabrication approach for metal oxide/C materials with a hierarchical pore structure on different length scales is proposed. The material is synthesized from inorganic/organic metal oxo clusters as molecular precursors and processed using a dual-template method followed by heat treatment. TiO2 and ZrO2 were used as two examples of metal oxide materials and their corresponding carbon-based composites showed superior photocatalytic activity in methylene blue degradation compared with the control samples. This work demonstrates a novel approach for processing metal oxide-based photocatalysts with enhanced reactivity that is broadly applicable to the design of complex functional metal oxide composites with high electrochemical performance for energy applications.