Mesoporous TiO2/Zn2Ti3O8 hybrid films synthesized by polymeric micelle assembly

Ming Zhao; Bishnu Prasad Bastakoti; Yunqi Li; Hua Xu; Jinhua Ye; Zongwen Liu; Yusuke Yamauchi

doi:10.1039/C5CC04903B

Mesoporous TiO₂/Zn₂Ti₃O₈ hybrid films synthesized by polymeric micelle assembly†

Ming Zhao,^ab Bishnu Prasad Bastakoti,*^cd Yunqi Li,^ce Hua Xu,^ab Jinhua Ye,^abf Zongwen Liu^d and Yusuke Yamauchi*^ace

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^a TU-NIMS Joint Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Nankai District, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China

^b Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin 30072, P. R. China

^c World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
E-mail: bishnubastakoti@hotmail.com, Yamauchi.Yusuke@nims.go.jp
Web: http://www.yamauchi-labo.com/

^d School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

^e Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan

^f Environmental Remediation Materials Unit and International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan

Abstract

A hybrid mesoporous TiO₂/Zn₂Ti₃O₈ film with a pore size of around 40 nm is successfully synthesized by the polymeric micelle assembly approach. The chemically distinct units of polymeric micelles of the poly(styrene–2-vinylpyridine–ethylene oxide) triblock copolymer simultaneously contribute to the formation of mesoporous TiO₂/Zn₂Ti₃O₈ films with enhanced photocatalytic activity during H₂ evolution reaction.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CC04903B
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 14 Jun 2015
Accepted: 22 Jul 2015
First published: 22 Jul 2015

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Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 14582-14585

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Mesoporous TiO₂/Zn₂Ti₃O₈ hybrid films synthesized by polymeric micelle assembly

M. Zhao, B. P. Bastakoti, Y. Li, H. Xu, J. Ye, Z. Liu and Y. Yamauchi, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 14582 DOI: 10.1039/C5CC04903B

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