Remarkably enhanced photocatalytic activity of laser ablated Au nanoparticle decorated BiFeO3 nanowires under visible-light

Shun Li; Jianming Zhang; Md Golam Kibria; Zetian Mi; Mohamed Chaker; Dongling Ma; Riad Nechache; Federico Rosei

doi:10.1039/C3CC40363G

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Remarkably enhanced photocatalytic activity of laser ablated Au nanoparticle decorated BiFeO₃nanowires under visible-light†

Shun Li,‡^a Jianming Zhang,‡^a Md Golam Kibria,^b Zetian Mi,^b Mohamed Chaker,^a Dongling Ma,*^a Riad Nechache*^c and Federico Rosei*^ad

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^a Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, INRS, 1650, Boulevard Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Qubec J3X 1S2, Canada
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^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, 3480 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0E9, Canada

^c NAST Center and Department of Chemical Science and Technology, University of Rome Tor Vergata Viadella Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy

^d Center for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures, McGill University, H3A 2K6, Montréal, QC, Canada

Abstract

Hybrid photocatalysts consisting of single crystalline BiFeO₃ nanowires and laser ablated Au nanoparticles were synthesized by a functionalization-step-free solution process. The 1.0 wt% Au nanoparticle decorated BiFeO₃ nanowires exhibit ∼30 times higher photocatalytic activity for water oxidation than that exhibited by the parent wires during the first 4 h.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC40363G
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 16 Jan 2013
Accepted: 07 May 2013
First published: 17 May 2013

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Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 5856-5858

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Remarkably enhanced photocatalytic activity of laser ablated Au nanoparticle decorated BiFeO₃ nanowires under visible-light

S. Li, J. Zhang, M. G. Kibria, Z. Mi, M. Chaker, D. Ma, R. Nechache and F. Rosei, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 5856 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC40363G

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