A possible mechanism for the emergence of an additional band gap due to a Ti-O-C bond in the TiO2-graphene hybrid system for enhanced photodegradation of methylene blue under visible light

RSC Advances

Volumn 4, Issue 104, 2014, Pages 59890-59901

  Umrao, Sima ^a   Abraham, Shiju ^a,b,c   Theil, Frank ^b,c   Pandey, Shobhit ^d   Ciobota, Valerian ^b   Shukla, P K ^e   Rupp, Caroline J ^f   Chakraborty, Sudip ^g   Ahuja, Rajeev ^g   Popp, Jürgen ^b,c   Dietzek, Benjamin ^b,c   Srivastava, Anchal ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e ITS Engineering College   (India)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

^g UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CHARGE CARRIERS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; HYBRID SYSTEMS; LIGHT; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; PHOTODEGRADATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RATE CONSTANTS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ANALYTICAL EQUATIONS; CHARGE CARRIER RECOMBINATION; DENSITY FUNCTION THEORY CALCULATIONS; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTODEGRADATION EFFICIENCY; PHOTODEGRADATION OF METHYLENE BLUE; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO);

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84912003595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra10572a     Document Type: Article

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