Reduced TiO2 rutile nanorods with well-defined facets and their visible-light photocatalytic activity

Zhao Zhao; Huaqiao Tan; Haifeng Zhao; Yang Lv; Li-Jing Zhou; Yujiang Song; Zaicheng Sun

doi:10.1039/C3CC49182J

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Reduced TiO₂ rutile nanorods with well-defined facets and their visible-light photocatalytic activity†

Zhao Zhao,^ab Huaqiao Tan,*^a Haifeng Zhao,^a Yang Lv,^c Li-Jing Zhou,^d Yujiang Song^c and Zaicheng Sun*^a

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^a State Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Applications, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Changchun, Jilin 130033, China
E-mail: tanhq870@126.com, sunzc@ciomp.ac.cn

^b University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100000, China

^c Dalian National Laboratories for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Dalian, Liaoning 116023, China

^d State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparation, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin 130012, China

Abstract

Stable reduced TiO₂ rutile nanorods with well-defined facets were prepared by a solvothermal route in the presence of Zn powder. The oxygen vacancy in the TiO₂ nanorods, which can be tuned by the amount of Zn, results in a narrow band gap and visible-light photocatalytic activity.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC49182J
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 03 Dec 2013
Accepted: 20 Jan 2014
First published: 22 Jan 2014

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Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 2755-2757

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Reduced TiO₂ rutile nanorods with well-defined facets and their visible-light photocatalytic activity

Z. Zhao, H. Tan, H. Zhao, Y. Lv, L. Zhou, Y. Song and Z. Sun, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 2755 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC49182J

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