Titania Composites with 2 D Transition Metal Carbides as Photocatalysts for Hydrogen Production under Visible-Light Irradiation

Wang, Hui; Peng, Rui; Hood, Zachary D.; Naguib, Michael; Adhikari, Shiba P.; Wu, Zili

doi:10.1002/cssc.201600165

Title: Titania Composites with 2 D Transition Metal Carbides as Photocatalysts for Hydrogen Production under Visible-Light Irradiation

Journal Article · Tue May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · ChemSusChem

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201600165· OSTI ID:1257896

Wang, Hui ^[1]; Peng, Rui ^[1]; Hood, Zachary D. ^[2]; Naguib, Michael ^[3]; Adhikari, Shiba P. ^[4];

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Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Materials Science Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN 37831 USA
Wake Forest Univ., Winston-Salem, NC (United States)

Abstract MXenes, a family of two‐dimensional transition‐metal carbides, were successfully demonstrated as co‐catalysts with rutile TiO ₂ for visible‐light‐induced solar hydrogen production from water splitting. The physicochemical properties of Ti ₃ C ₂ T _x MXene coupled with TiO ₂ were investigated by a variety of characterization techniques. The effect of the Ti ₃ C ₂ T _x loading on the photocatalytic performance of the TiO ₂ /Ti ₃ C ₂ T _x composites was elucidated. With an optimized Ti ₃ C ₂ T _x content of 5 wt %, the TiO ₂ /Ti ₃ C ₂ T _x composite shows a 400 % enhancement in the photocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction compared with that of pure rutile TiO ₂ . We also expanded our exploration to other MXenes (Nb ₂ CT _x and Ti ₂ CT _x ) as co‐catalysts coupled with TiO ₂ , and these materials also exhibited enhanced hydrogen production. These results manifest the generality of MXenes as effective co‐catalysts for solar hydrogen production.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

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OSTI ID:: 1257896

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Journal Information:: ChemSusChem, Vol. 9, Issue 12; ISSN 1864-5631

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