Engineering the Unique 2D Mat of Graphene to Achieve Graphene-TiO2 Nanocomposite for Photocatalytic Selective Transformation: What Advantage does Graphene Have over Its Forebear Carbon Nanotube?

• Published in: ACS nano Vol. 5; no. 9; pp. 7426 - 7435
• Main Authors: Zhang, Yanhui, Tang, Zi-Rong, Fu, Xianzhi, Xu, Yi-Jun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 27.09.2011
• Subjects: nanocomposite; visible light photocatalysis; selective oxidation; graphene; TiO2

Increasing interest has been devoted to synthesizing graphene (GR)-semiconductor nanocomposites as photocatalysts for potential applications, which is very similar to its forebear carbon nanotube (CNT)-semiconductor photocatalysts. Unfortunately, a thoughtful and inevitable comparison between GR- an...