TY - JOUR
T1 - Visible light photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen production from N-TiO 2 rice grain shaped electrospun nanostructures
AU - Babu, Veluru Jagadeesh
AU - Kumar, Manippady K.
AU - Nair, Appukuttan Sreekumaran
AU - Kheng, Tan Lee
AU - Allakhverdiev, Suleyman I.
AU - Ramakrishna, Seeram
N1 - Funding Information:
VJB and ASN thanking for the financial assistance from Clean Energy Program office of National Research Foundation, Singapore (Project No.: NRF 2007 EWT-CERP 01-0531 ). SIA thanking for supporting grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Nos. 11-04-01389a and 11-04-92690a ), the Russian Ministry of Science and Education (No: 16.740.11.0176 ), and the Molecular and Cell Biology Programs of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Copyright:
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PY - 2012/5
Y1 - 2012/5
N2 - We report on the visible light-driven hydrogen production from splitting of water molecules by nitrogen-doped TiO 2 (N-TiO 2) with a rice grain-like nanostructure morphology. The N-TiO 2 nanostructures are prepared using sol-gel and electrospinning methods followed by post-annealing of the composite nanofibers. The nanostructures are characterized by microscopy and spectroscopy. First order rate constants for the visible light-assisted photocatalysis in the degradation of methylene blue (MB) dye are found to be 0.2 × 10 -3 and 1.8 × 10 -3 min -1 for TiO 2 and N-TiO 2 (5 wt% of nitrogen), respectively. The N-TiO 2 utilized in water splitting experiments and evaluated hydrogen (H 2) of 28 and 2 μmol/h for N-TiO 2 and TiO 2, respectively. The improvement may be attributed due to the N-doping and higher surface area as ∼70 m 2/g.
AB - We report on the visible light-driven hydrogen production from splitting of water molecules by nitrogen-doped TiO 2 (N-TiO 2) with a rice grain-like nanostructure morphology. The N-TiO 2 nanostructures are prepared using sol-gel and electrospinning methods followed by post-annealing of the composite nanofibers. The nanostructures are characterized by microscopy and spectroscopy. First order rate constants for the visible light-assisted photocatalysis in the degradation of methylene blue (MB) dye are found to be 0.2 × 10 -3 and 1.8 × 10 -3 min -1 for TiO 2 and N-TiO 2 (5 wt% of nitrogen), respectively. The N-TiO 2 utilized in water splitting experiments and evaluated hydrogen (H 2) of 28 and 2 μmol/h for N-TiO 2 and TiO 2, respectively. The improvement may be attributed due to the N-doping and higher surface area as ∼70 m 2/g.
KW - Electrospinning
KW - H production
KW - Hybrid nanostructures
KW - Photocatalysis
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2011.12.015
DO - 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2011.12.015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84860369714
SN - 0360-3199
VL - 37
SP - 8897
EP - 8904
JO - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
JF - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
IS - 10
ER -
