Yi, Q;
Wang, H;
Cong, S;
Cao, Y;
Wang, Y;
Sun, Y;
Lou, Y;
... Zou, G; + view all
(2016)
Self-Cleaning Glass of Photocatalytic Anatase TiO2@Carbon Nanotubes Thin Film by Polymer-Assisted Approach.
Nanoscale Research Letters
, 11
, Article 457. 10.1186/s11671-016-1674-4.
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Abstract
Due to the good photocatalytic activity, the TiO2@CNTs thin film is highly desirable to apply to the self-cleaning glass for green intelligent building. Here, the TiO2@CNTs thin film has been successfully achieved by polymer-assisted approach of an aqueous chemical solution method. The polymer, polyethylenimine, aims to combine the Ti4+ with CNTs for film formation of TiO2@CNTs. The resultant thin film was uniform, highly transparent, and super-hydrophilic. Owing to fast electron transport and effectively hindering electron-hole recombination, the TiO2@CNTs thin film has nearly twofold photocatalytic performance than pure TiO2. The TiO2@CNTs thin films show a good application for self-cleaning glasses.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Self-Cleaning Glass of Photocatalytic Anatase TiO2@Carbon Nanotubes Thin Film by Polymer-Assisted Approach |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s11671-016-1674-4 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1186/s11671-016-1674-4 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2016 The Author(s). Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Technology, Physical Sciences, Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, Materials Science, Multidisciplinary, Physics, Applied, Science & Technology - Other Topics, Materials Science, Physics, CNTs, TiO2, Photocatalysis, Polymer-assisted approach, Self-cleaning, FUNCTIONALIZED CARBON NANOTUBES, SENSITIZED SOLAR-CELLS, TIO2 NANOPARTICLES, PERFORMANCE, GRAPHENE, ELECTRODE, COMPOSITES, DEPOSITION, WATER, OXIDE |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1529913 |
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