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Selectively anchoring Cu(OH)2 and CuO on amine-modified brookite TiO2 for enhanced CO2 photoreduction

  • Carbon Letters
  • Abbr : Carbon Lett.
  • 2023, 33(5), pp.1395-1406
  • DOI : 10.1007/s42823-023-00497-0
  • Publisher : Korean Carbon Society
  • Research Area : Natural Science > Natural Science General > Other Natural Sciences General
  • Received : December 18, 2022
  • Accepted : March 9, 2023
  • Published : August 1, 2023

Chen Zhangjing 1 Li Liangliang 1 Cheng Gang 1

1School of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Donghu New & High Technology Development Zone, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, 430205, People’s Republic of China

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ABSTRACT

Photocatalytic CO2 reduction is a promising approach for reducing CO2 emissions and achieving the goal of carbon neutrality. In this work, selectively coupling Cu(OH)2 and CuO with amine-modified brookite TiO2 (NH2–B–TiO2) has been achieved by a simple precipitation method. The results show that CuO is better than Cu(OH)2 as a co-catalyst to enhance the CO2 photoreduction capability of NH2–B–TiO2. The highest rates of CO2 conversion to CH4 and CO of NH2–B–TiO2–CuO composite reach 6.05 and 3.25 μmol h−1 g−1, respectively, which is higher than 8 times the yield of CH4 of NH2–B–TiO2. It is proposed that the NH2–B–TiO2–CuO composite offers an effective charge transfer through the formation of a p–n junction between NH2–B–TiO2 and CuO interfaces, while in the NH2–B–TiO2–Cu(OH)2 composite, the Cu(OH)2 dominantly serves as an electron sink to capture photo-induced electrons, promoting photo-induced carrier separation. This work provides an ingenious synthetic method for selectively anchoring Cu(OH)2 and CuO on semiconductors with different charge transfer routes for an efficient CO2 photoreduction.

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