The effects of the planar aromatic organic molecules anthracene and pyrene on the catalytic performance of the intramolecular hydrogen evolving photocatalyst [Ru(tbbpy)2(tpphz)PdCl2](PF6)2 functioning as a photocatalytic dyad have been studied. (1)H-NMR studies on [Ru(tbbpy)2(tpphz)PdCl2](PF6)2 and [Ru(tbbpy)2(tpphz)](PF6)2 show a pronounced interaction of pyrene with the ruthenium complexes du...

The conditions for photocatalytic degradation of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) in aqueous solution with Fe-doped titanium dioxide (TiO2) were optimized. The degradation efficiencies with Fe-doped TiO2 were better, compared with those obtained with bare TiO2 and Pt-doped TiO2. The effect of various experimental factors, such as photocatalytic dosage, temperature, solution pH and light i...

Energy band engineering and the nature of surface/interface of a semiconductor play a significant role in searching high efficiency photocatalysts. Actually, the active facets, morphology controlling, especially the exposed facets modulation of photocatalysts during preparation are very desirable. In order to achieve high photocatalytic performance, intrinsic mechanism of such anisotropic prope...

Titanium dioxide (TiO(2)) nanofibers in the anatase structure were successfully prepared via electrospinning technique followed by calcination process. The morphologies, crystal structure, surface area, and the photocatalytic activity of resulting TiO(2) nanofibers were characterized by field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffracti...

Photocatalytic degradation of fast green using pure and N-S codoped bimetal nanoparticles CeCdO3 has been studied. The CeCdO3 nanoparticles were synthesized by wet precipitation method and characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and FTIR. The rate of photocatalytic reaction was examined spectrophotometrically using pure and N, S-codoped catalyst. The effect ...

Nanoporous and nonporous three-dimensional silicon nanowire arrays (SiNWAs) prepared with metal-assisted chemical etching method were investigated as photocatalysts in dye photodegradation systematically. In comparison with nonporous SiNWAs, nanoporous SiNWAs have higher surface area, larger pore volume, stronger light absorption and better photocatalytic activity. After the HF-treatment, the p...

Using a solid-state-reaction method, La-doped AgNbO(3) samples of Ag(1-x)La(x)NbO(3) were synthesized and their photocatalytic activities were evaluated from gaseous 2-propanol decomposition under visible light irradiation. The photocatalytic activity and the surface area were increased by La doping, but the crystal structure and light absorption property did not change. The photocatalytic acti...

Photocatalytic microreactors have been utilized as rapid, versatile platforms for the characterization of photocatalysts. In this work, a photocatalytic microreactor integrated with absorption spectroscopy was proposed for the real-time monitoring of photocatalytic activity using different catalysts. The validity of this method was investigated by the rapid screening on the photocatalytic perfo...