Nickel sulfide modified TiO2 nanotubes with highly efficient photocatalytic H2 evolution activity

作者：Huang, Jiasheng; Shi, Zhisheng; Dong, Xinfa^*

来源：Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2016, 25(1): 136-140.

DOI：10.1016/j.jechem.2015.11.007

• Photocatalysis
• Hydrogen production
• TiO2 nanotubes
• NIS

TiO2 nanotubes (TNTs) with nickel sulfide (NiS) co-catalyst were prepared by a simple solvothermal method and characterized by X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscope, N-2-physisorption, UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy and photoluminescence spectroscopy. Loading NiS nano-clusters can significantly enhance the photocatalytic H-2 evolution performance of TNTs. The optimum NiS loading content was found to be 8 wt% and the corresponding hydrogen production rate is ca. 7486 mu mol/h/g, being about 79 times higher than that of pure TNTs. This enhancement of photocatalytic H-2 evolution was attributed to the synergistic effect between NiS and TNTs.

• 出版日期2016-1
• 单位华南理工大学