Abstract:
Necessary to jointly address the two issues of easy TiO
2 electron-hole pairs recombination and low visible light response, spherical titanium dioxide(TiO
2(sp)) was first prepared from titanium oxide sulfate, and flake titanium dioxide(TiO
2(sh)) was prepared from tetrabutyl titanate. Then, by modifying ethylenediamine, N-doped titanium dioxide(N-TiO
2(sp) and N-TiO
2(sh)) was created. Then graphene oxide(GO) was prepared by the Hummers method, followed by ammonia modification to obtain nitrogen-doped graphene(NG). Finally, N-TiO
2(sp) or N-TiO
2(sh) were loaded by the one-pot hydrothermal method to produce five samples of spherical N-doped TiO
2/N-doped graphene(N-TiO
2(sp)/NG) and five samples of sheet N-doped TiO
2/N-doped graphene(N-TiO
2(sh)/NG), separately. The structures were characterized by SEM, TEM, XRD, BET, XPS, FT-IR and UV-vis, and the synergistic photocatalytic activity of 2D NG loaded 0D/2D N-TiO
2 hybrids with different contents for X3B under visible light was investigated. The results show that: because nitrogen participates in the hybridization of the two, N-TiO
2 and NG have synergistic enhancement effect to improve photocatalytic activity, the light absorption range is extended to the visible region, the photogenerated electron-hole pairs recombination is inhibited, and the photocatalytic activity is improved. The 2D/2D contact N-TiO
2(sh)/NG3 hybrid material has the best synergistic catalytic effect, and the degradation rate of X3B by hybrid material reaches 98.5% in 50 min under simulated sunlight, which is 6.6 times that of TiO
2.