In Situ Loading Transition Metal Oxide Clusters on TiO2 Nanosheets As Co-catalysts for Exceptional High Photoactivity

• Published in: ACS catalysis Vol. 3; no. 9; pp. 2052 - 2061
• Main Authors: Liu, Lichen, Ji, Zeyang, Zou, Weixin, Gu, Xianrui, Deng, Yu, Gao, Fei, Tang, Changjin, Dong, Lin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Chemical Society 06.09.2013
• Subjects: photocatalytic O2 evolution; interfacial charge transfer; heterojunctions; TiO2 nanosheets; metal oxide clusters

In this work, transition metal oxide clusters (MnO x , FeO x , CoO x , NiO x , and CuO x , denoted as TM-TiO2) are in situ loaded on TiO2 nanosheets through one-pot reaction. Structural and pore structural characterizations prove that metal ions do not dope into the frameworks of TiO2 nanosheets. Th...