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Prolonged Electron Lifetime in Ordered TiO2 Mesophyll Cell-Like Microspheres for Efficient Photocatalytic Water
Yanyan Zhang1, Bo Wu2, Yuxin Tang1
1School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798, Singapore.
Small (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|March 22, 2016
Abstract:
Mesoporous integrated TiO2 spheres composed of numerous orderly arranged nanocrystals with a reduced lattice-lattice interface connection, display an almost four times longer electron lifetime (350 ps) than the randomly aggregated nanoparticles (80 ps), and hence enhance the corresponding photocatalytic H2 and O2 generation.
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