The conversion of CO2 to low-carbon fuels using solar energy is considered an economically attractive and environmentally friendly route. The development of novel catalysts and the use of solar energy via photocatalysis are key to achieving the goal...
The extensive use of fossil fuels has sped up the global development of the world economy and is accompanied by significant problems, such as energy shortages and environmental pollution. Solar energy, an inexhaustible and clean energy resource, has...
TiO2 photoelectrode has become an attractive platform due to its excellent photoelectric performance and has been widely used in battery, photocatalysis, and other photoelectric fields. However, when the TiO2 photoelectrode is used in solar flow batt...
In the current research, a Cu2O-Au-TiO2 heterostructure was fabricated via a step-wise photodeposition route to determine its possible application in the photocatalytic oxidation of hazardous vapors. The results of electron microscopy and X-ray photo...
A TiO2@Cu2O semiconductor heterostructure with better photochemical response compared to TiO2 was obtained using an electrochemical deposition method of Cu2O on the surface of TiO2 nanotubes. The choice of 1D nanotubes was motivated by the possibilit...
The photodehydrogenation of ethanol is a sustainable and potentially cost-effective strategy to produce hydrogen and acetaldehyde from renewable resources. The optimization of this process requires the use of highly active, stable and selective photo...
Cu4Ti2O/TiO2/diatomite with double interface Cu4Ti2O/TiO2 and rutile/anatase heterojunction were fabricated, which demonstrated good antibacterial activity (100%) against Acinetobacter baumannii. Cu/TiO2/diatomite prepared under optimum preparation c...
A relatively new approach to the design of photocatalytic and gas sensing materials is to use the shape-controlled nanocrystals with well-defined facets exposed to light or gas molecules. An abrupt increase in a number of papers on the synthesis and...
Photocatalytic reduction of CO2 into value-added chemicals offers a sustainable route to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions while producing renewable fuels. However, conventional TiO2-based systems suffer from limited visible-light activity and ineffi...
Metal oxide semiconductor material has great potential to act as window layer in p–n heterojunction solar cell thin film owing to low production cost and significant properties in photovoltaic mechanism. In this work, n-TiO2/ZnO bilayer thin fi...
Hydrogen production by photoreforming of biomass-derived ethanol is a renewable way of obtaining clean fuel. We developed a site-specific deposition strategy to construct supported Au catalysts by rationally constructing Ti3+ defects inTiO2 nanorods...
The aim of this study is to clarify the effect of doped metal type on CO2 reduction characteristics of TiO2 with NH3 and H2O. Cu and Pd have been selected as dopants for TiO2. In addition, the impact of molar ratio of CO2 to reductants NH3 and H2O ha...
This study has investigated the impact of molar ratio of CO2 to reductants NH3 and H2O as well as that of Cu loading on CO2 reduction characteristics over Cu/TiO2. No study to optimize the reductants’ combination and Cu loading weight in order to enh...
Some co-catalyst nanoparticles can enhance the activity of photocatalysts due to prolonging the charge separation lifetime by promoting the electron or hole transfer. CuO particles were prepared from an aqueous solution of copper (II) nitrate at 351...
In order to improve the photocatalytic activity of TiO2, we successfully loaded nano-CuO on the TiO2 nanomeshes as CuO-TiO2 nanocomposites through a facile electrodeposition method. The optimized calcined temperature after Cu electrodeposition is con...
Sintering characteristics, phase evolutions, microstructures, and microwave dielectric properties have been investigated for BaTi4O9 ceramics prepared by traditional low temperature sintering using CuO–TiO2 (CT) additions as aids. The sintering...
This paper presents an experimental study of using a double-layered Cu/TiO2 and P4O10/TiO2 as photocatalysts for CO2 reduction with an extended wavelength of range light from ultraviolet light (UV) to infrared light (IR). The lights studied were UV +...
The effect of a Cu2O substrate on the photoinduced alteration of the hydrophilicity of TiO2 and ZnO surfaces was studied. It was demonstrated that the formation of heterostructures Cu2O/TiO2 and Cu2O/ZnO strongly changed the direction of the photoind...
Energy consumption for building cooling is directly related to incident solar radiation. Therefore, solutions of high reflectivity, while keeping color comfort, are being actively researched. Here, finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations wer...
Non-noble metal oxides consisting of CuO and TiO2 (CuO/TiO2 catalyst) for CO2 reduction were fabricated using a simple hydrothermal method. The designed catalysts of CuO could be in situ reduced to a metallic Cu-forming Cu/TiO2 catalyst, which could...
Regulating the metal–support interaction is essential for obtaining highly efficient catalysts for the catalytic oxidation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). In this work, CuO-TiO2(coll) and CuO/TiO2(imp) with different metal–support i...
The heterojunction based on n-TiO2 nanolayer/p-CuMnO2 thin film was achieved using an efficient two-step synthesis process for the fabrication of a UV photodetector. The first step consisted of obtaining the TiO2 nanolayer, which was grown on titan f...
CuO-TiO2 nanocomposites were successfully synthesized using the C. benghalensis plant extracts. The effect of the composition of CuO to TiO2 on the morphological, optical, electrochemical, and photodegradation efficiency in the composites was studied...
TiO2 photocatalysts are limited to ultraviolet light photo-activation, however, by coupling with NaYF4:(Yb,Er) they can utilize visible light activation, but with low efficiencies. In order to enhance visible light photo-activity, CuO nanoparticles w...
This work reports on the preparation of Cr-doped TiO2 (Cr–TiO2), Cu-doped (Cu-TiO2), and its utilization in the photoanode of a solar redox flow battery (SRFB). A pure TiO2 electrode, Cr-doped TiO2 electrode, and Cu-doped TiO2 electrode coated...
Preparation of TiO2 using the hydrothermal treatment in NH4OH solution and subsequent thermal heating at 500–700 °C in Ar was performed in order to introduce some titania surface defects. The highest amount of oxygen vacancies and Ti3+ surf...
The effect of Cu or Cu-Pt nanoparticles in TiO2 photocatalysts prepared by flame spray pyrolysis in one step was investigated in hydrogen production from methanol photo-steam reforming. Two series of titanium dioxide photocatalysts were prepared, con...
Nanocomposites comprised of CuO-TiO2-chitosan-escin, which has adjustable physicochemical properties, provide a solution for therapeutic selectivity in cancer treatment. By controlling the intrinsic signaling primarily through the mitochondrial signa...
CuO/TiO2 is a highly active visible-light-driven photocatalyst. The precise structural regulation of TiO2 and the quantum dot-scale loading strategy of CuO have long been researching hotspots and challenges. This work presents an ingenious synthetic...
Ti3AlC2 presents a hexagonal layered crystal structure and bridges the gap between metallic and ceramic properties, and Gadolinia (Gd2O3) has excellent thermodynamic stability, which make them potentially attractive as dispersive phases for Cu matrix...
Chemiresistors based on thin films of the Li-doped CuO–TiO2 heterojunctions were synthesized by a 2-step method: (i) repeated ion beam sputtering of the building elements (on the Si substrates and multisensor platforms); and (ii) thermal annealing in...
The highly effective reaction system was investigated for the photocatalytic ammonia synthesis from the reduction of nitrate ions by using the semiconductor photocatalyst, Cu and Ag doped on TiO2 (CuAg/TiO2) at room temperature under UV light irradia...
In this work, metal-doped titanium dioxide (TiO2) was synthesised with the aim of improving photocatalytic degradation and antimicrobial activities; TiO2 was doped with copper (Cu) ranging from 0.1 to 1.0 wt%. The physical and chemical properties of...
La2/3Cu3Ti4O12 ceramics were prepared by the same method of solid-state reaction as CaCu3Ti4O12 ceramics. The structure and dielectric responses for La2/3Cu3Ti4O12 and CaCu3Ti4O12 ceramics were systematically investigated by X-ray diffraction, scanni...
This study demonstrates the ability to control the properties of TiO2–CuOx composite layers for photocatalytic applications by using a simple electrophoretic deposition method from isopropanol-based suspension. To obtain uniform layers with a c...
Bentonite-supported TiO2 (Montmorillonite (MMT)-TiO2) and Cu3TiO5 oxides (MMT-Cu3TiO5) nanomaterials were synthesized via a facile and sustainable sol–gel synthesis approach. The XRD results indicate the presence of mixed phases, namely, TiO2 a...
This research was designed to improve the separation efficiency of photogenerated carriers in TiO2 through the construction of a PN heterojunction. The motivation behind this was to tackle the problems of the narrow light response range and the high...
Thermoelectric (TE) materials are a kind of energy material which can directly convert waste heat into electricity based on TE effects. Ternary Cu2SnSe3 material with diamond-like structure has become one of the potential TE materials due to its low...
Surface contamination by microbes is a major public health concern. A damp environment is one of potential sources for microbe proliferation. Smart photocatalytic coatings on building surfaces using semiconductors like titania (TiO2) can effectively...
Photochemical cathodic protection (PEC) efficiency was enhanced by doping TiO2 with Cu (Cu/TiO2) through impregnation and reduction under hydrogen. The Cu loading was vaired from 0.1 to 1.0 mol% (0.1 Cu/TiO2, 0.5 Cu/TiO2, 1 Cu/TiO2). Then, up to 50 w...
In this work, the effects of different sintering temperatures and TiO2 concentrations on the dielectric properties of ZrO2 and Nb2O5 pre-doped CaCu3Ti4O12 (CCTO) ceramics were investigated. These doped ceramics were sintered at temperatures of 1020,...
ABO3 perovskites offer versatile photoactive nano-templates that can be optimized towards specific technologies, either by means of doping or via heterojunction engineering. SrTiO3 is a well-studied perovskite photocatalyst, with a highly reducing co...
Titanium with apatite-forming ability as well as antibacterial activity is useful as a component of antibacterial dental implants. When Ti was subjected to hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), copper acetate (Cu(OAc)2), and heat (H2O2-Cu(OAc)2-heat) treatments,...
Nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions pose environmental and health risks. Selective catalytic reduction (SCR) is effective for NOx removal, and using CO as a reductant can eliminate both NOx and CO. This study explores CuCe catalysts on SiO2, Al2O3, and T...
CuFeS2/TiO2 nanocomposite has been prepared by a simple, low-cost mechanochemical route to assess its visible-light-driven photocatalytic efficiency in Methyl Orange azo dye decolorization. The structural and microstructural characterization was stud...
Visible-light-enhanced TiO2 nanocatalysts doped with Cu and Fe were synthesized using the sol–gel method to investigate their performance in degrading gaseous benzene. The structure and morphology of mono- and co-doped TiO2 (i.e., Cu/Fe-TiO2, C...
A novel approach of the deposition of two-component coating consisting of TiO2 and CuO on polymer membranes by MS-PVD method was presented in this work. This confirmed the possibility of using thin functional coatings for the modification of polymer...
A self-powered photodetector with the FTO/n-TiO2/p-CuMnO2 configuration, representing the novelty of the work, was successfully achieved for the first time and presumes two steps: deposition of the n-type semiconductor (TiO2) by the doctor blade meth...
In the present work, different concentrations of Cu ion (1, 2, 5 and 10 wt %) were doped in the TiO2 film by a sol-gel method and dip coating process. The morphology of the Cu-doped TiO2 films were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM)...
This study effectively demonstrates the sonochemical synthesis of visible-light-responsive Cu-ZnO/TiO2 ternary Z-scheme heterojunction nanocomposite photocatalyst. The as-prepared photocatalyst was comprehensively characterized by techniques includin...
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