PMID- 26878901
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160826
LR  - 20160225
IS  - 2040-3372 (Electronic)
IS  - 2040-3364 (Linking)
VI  - 8
IP  - 9
DP  - 2016 Mar 7
TI  - In situ plasmonic Ag nanoparticle anchored TiO2 nanotube arrays as 
      visible-light-driven photocatalysts for enhanced water splitting.
PG  - 5226-34
LID - 10.1039/c5nr08341a [doi]
AB  - An ultrasonication-assisted in situ deposition strategy was utilised to uniformly 
      decorate plasmonic Ag nanoparticles on vertically aligned TiO2 nanotube arrays 
      (NTAs) to construct a Ag@TiO2 NTA composite. The Ag nanoparticles act as 
      efficient surface plasmon resonance (SPR) photosensitizers to drive 
      photocatalytic water splitting under visible light irradiation. The Ag 
      nanoparticles were uniformly deposited on the surface and inside the highly 
      oriented TiO2 nanotubes. The visible-light-driven hydrogen production activities 
      of silver nanoparticle anchored TiO2 nanotube array photocatalysts were evaluated 
      using methanol as a sacrificial reagent in water under a 500 W Xe lamp with a UV 
      light cutoff filter (lambda >/= 420 nm). It was found that the hydrogen production rate 
      of the Ag@TiO2 NTAs prepared with ultrasonication-assisted deposition for 5 min 
      was approximately 15 times higher than that of its pristine TiO2 NTAs 
      counterpart. The highly efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution is attributed 
      to the SPR effect of Ag for enhanced visible light absorption and boosting the 
      photogenerated electron-hole separation/transfer. This strategy is promising for 
      the design and construction of high efficiency TiO2 based photocatalysts for 
      solar energy conversion.
FAU - Ge, Ming-Zheng
AU  - Ge MZ
AD  - National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, College of Textile and Clothing 
      Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China. jyhuang81@suda.edu.cn 
      kqzhang@suda.edu.cn yklai@suda.edu.cn.
FAU - Cao, Chun-Yan
AU  - Cao CY
AD  - National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, College of Textile and Clothing 
      Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China. jyhuang81@suda.edu.cn 
      kqzhang@suda.edu.cn yklai@suda.edu.cn.
FAU - Li, Shu-Hui
AU  - Li SH
AD  - National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, College of Textile and Clothing 
      Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China. jyhuang81@suda.edu.cn 
      kqzhang@suda.edu.cn yklai@suda.edu.cn.
FAU - Tang, Yu-Xin
AU  - Tang YX
AD  - School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 
      Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore.
FAU - Wang, Lu-Ning
AU  - Wang LN
AD  - School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology 
      Beijing, Beijing 100083, China.
FAU - Qi, Ning
AU  - Qi N
AD  - National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, College of Textile and Clothing 
      Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China. jyhuang81@suda.edu.cn 
      kqzhang@suda.edu.cn yklai@suda.edu.cn.
FAU - Huang, Jian-Ying
AU  - Huang JY
AD  - National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, College of Textile and Clothing 
      Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China. jyhuang81@suda.edu.cn 
      kqzhang@suda.edu.cn yklai@suda.edu.cn.
FAU - Zhang, Ke-Qin
AU  - Zhang KQ
AD  - National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, College of Textile and Clothing 
      Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China. jyhuang81@suda.edu.cn 
      kqzhang@suda.edu.cn yklai@suda.edu.cn and Research Center of Cooperative 
      Innovation for Functional Organic/Polymer Material Micro/Nanofabrication, Soochow 
      University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China.
FAU - Al-Deyab, S S
AU  - Al-Deyab SS
AD  - Petrochemical Research Chair, Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King 
      Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Lai, Yue-Kun
AU  - Lai YK
AD  - National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, College of Textile and Clothing 
      Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China. jyhuang81@suda.edu.cn 
      kqzhang@suda.edu.cn yklai@suda.edu.cn and Research Center of Cooperative 
      Innovation for Functional Organic/Polymer Material Micro/Nanofabrication, Soochow 
      University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - England
TA  - Nanoscale
JT  - Nanoscale
JID - 101525249
EDAT- 2016/02/18 06:00
MHDA- 2016/02/18 06:01
CRDT- 2016/02/17 06:00
PHST- 2016/02/17 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/02/18 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/02/18 06:01 [medline]
AID - 10.1039/c5nr08341a [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Nanoscale. 2016 Mar 7;8(9):5226-34. doi: 10.1039/c5nr08341a.