Incorporating a TiOx shell in single-walled carbon nanotube/fullerodendron coaxial nanowires: increasing the photocatalytic evolution of H2 from water under irradiation with visible light

K. Kurniawan; T. Tajima; Y. Kubo; H. Miyake; W. Kurashige; Y. Negishi; Y. Takaguchi

doi:10.1039/C7RA05412B

Incorporating a TiO_x shell in single-walled carbon nanotube/fullerodendron coaxial nanowires: increasing the photocatalytic evolution of H₂ from water under irradiation with visible light

K. Kurniawan,^a T. Tajima,*^a Y. Kubo,^a H. Miyake,^b W. Kurashige,^c Y. Negishi^c and Y. Takaguchi*^a

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^a Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-Naka, Kita-ku, Okayama, Japan
E-mail: tajimat@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp, yutaka@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp

^b Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, 2-16-1 Tokiwadai, Ube, Japan

^c Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science Division I, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan

Abstract

A custom-tailored single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) photocatalyst with an electron-extracting TiO_x shell, i.e., a SWCNT/fullerodendron/TiO_x coaxial nanowire, has been fabricated. Due to the presence of the TiO_x shell, the SWCNT/fullerodendron/TiO_x coaxial nanowire shows an enhanced photocatalytic activity (Φ = 0.47) for the evolution of hydrogen from water under irradiation with visible light (λ = 450 nm).

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The article was received on 13 May 2017, accepted on 13 Jun 2017 and first published on 21 Jun 2017

Article type: Paper

DOI: 10.1039/C7RA05412B

Citation: RSC Adv., 2017,7, 31767-31770

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Incorporating a TiO_x shell in single-walled carbon nanotube/fullerodendron coaxial nanowires: increasing the photocatalytic evolution of H₂ from water under irradiation with visible light

K. Kurniawan, T. Tajima, Y. Kubo, H. Miyake, W. Kurashige, Y. Negishi and Y. Takaguchi, RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 31767
DOI: 10.1039/C7RA05412B

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Incorporating a TiO_x shell in single-walled carbon nanotube/fullerodendron coaxial nanowires: increasing the photocatalytic evolution of H₂ from water under irradiation with visible light

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