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Highly Photoactive, Low Bandgap TiO2 Nanoparticles Wrapped by Graphene

  1. Joon Seok Lee†,
  2. Kyeong Hwan You†,
  3. Chan Beum Park*

Article first published online: 24 JAN 2012

DOI: 10.1002/adma.201104110

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Advanced Materials

Advanced Materials

Volume 24, Issue 8, pages 1084–1088, February 21, 2012

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Lee, J. S., You, K. H. and Park, C. B. (2012), Highly Photoactive, Low Bandgap TiO2 Nanoparticles Wrapped by Graphene. Adv. Mater., 24: 1084–1088. doi: 10.1002/adma.201104110

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 335 Science Road, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea

  1. †

    These authors contributed equally to this work.

*Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 335 Science Road, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 14 FEB 2012
  2. Article first published online: 24 JAN 2012
  3. Manuscript Revised: 13 DEC 2011
  4. Manuscript Received: 26 OCT 2011

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Highly photoactive, graphene-wrapped anatase TiO2 nanoparticles are synthesized through one-step hydrothermal reduction of graphene oxide (GO) and TiO2 crystallization from GO-wrapped amorphous TiO2 NPs. Graphene-TiO2 nanoparticles exhibit a red-shift of the band-edge and a significant reduction of the bandgap (2.80 eV). Graphene-TiO2 nanoparticles possess excellent photocatalytic properties under visible light for the degradation of methylene blue.

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