CuS hexagonal nanosheet/graphene was fabricated by a facile one-pot microwave-thermal method. The samples possess excellent photocatalytic activity for degradation of organic pollutant under visible light. The high photocatalytic activity was attributed to the deposition of CuS hexagonal nanosheet onto graphene. CuS nanosheet serves as a transporter which efficiently inhibits the recombination of the photo-induced charge carriers in the nanocomposites. The developed method demonstrates a facile approach towards the synthesis of two-dimensional semiconductor-graphene nanocomposites with excellent photocatalytic performance under visible light.
Novel Cu2O cubes with exposed {110} facets have been prepared. When evaluated for the photocatalytic performances, the etched Cu2O manifest higher photocatalytic activity than that of the normal Cu2O cubes.
We report a facile and eco-friendly one-pot synthesis of well-adorned mesoporous g-C3N4 material through a bubble templating strategy and involving controlling the surface area from 17 to 195 m2 g−1 by simply adjusting the mass ratio of melamine/NH4Cl.
We report an eco-friendly one-pot hydrothermal synthesis of ultrafine TiO2 nanocrystals (∼4.01 nm) homogeneously dispersed on the entire surface of graphene.