Photoreforming biomass-derived waste such as glycerol into hydrogen fuel is a renewable generation technology that has the potential to become important due unavoidable CO2 production during methane steam reforming. Despite tremendous efforts, challenge of developing highly active photocatalysts at low cost still remains elusive. Here, we developed novel photocatalyst with hybrid support compri...

Anatase TiO2 nanorods with a well-defined ⟨110⟩ texture have been studied using model-based characterization technique based on previous modeling framework. Intricate secondary side facet characteristics of tilt angles 26.5° indexed, and ⟨112⟩ growth direction the well-aligned facets is identified. These results not accessed experimentally but crucial in understanding nature most abundant their...

In this work, a reaction coupling self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (RC-SHS) method was developed for the in situ controlled synthesis of novel, high activity TiB2/(TiB2-TiN) hierarchical/heterostructured nanocomposites using TiO2, Mg, B2O3, KBH4 and NH4NO3 as raw materials. The as-synthesized samples were characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM)...

In this paper we demonstrate the use of atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ) to functionalize surface hydrothermally synthesized vertically aligned TiO2 nanorods (TNRs) for photo electrochemical (PEC) application. The TNRs functionalized with He-plasma showed relatively higher crystallinity, improved light absorption, and change in morphology additional area, leading an enhanced photocurrent ...

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