Doping of titanium dioxide nanofibers by silver nanoparticles revealed distinct improvement in the photocatalytic activity; however other influences have not been investigated. In this work, effect of sliver-doping on the crystal structure, the nanofibrous morphology as well as the photocatalytic activity of titanium oxide nanofibers has been studied. Silver-doped TiO2 nanofibers having differe...

The photovoltaic performance of a quantum dot (QD)-sensitized solar cell consisting of CdS/CdSe/ZnS QDs loaded onto the surface of the three-dimensional (3D) flower-like TiO2 structure grown on an array (1D) of TiO2 nanorods (FTiR) is studied. The flower-like structure on the rod-shaped titania was synthesized using a double-step hydrothermal process. The FTiR array exhibited a 3D/1D composite ...

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is one of the most promising photocatalytic materials, but its practical applications are always limited since it could only be excited in UV range and has low efficiency due to wide band gap fast recombination rate. To overcome these problems, transition metals have been used as dopants improve performance titanium dioxide. However, previous investigations shown that do...

self-assembly of densely packed zno nanorods were grown on porous silicon (ps) substrate by low-temperature chemical bath deposition. the structural and optical properties of the obtained zno nanostructures on ps substrate were systematically studied. the strong and sharp (002) peak compared with other peaks in the x-ray diffraction (xrd) indicated thatzno nanorods formed with superior orientat...

Plasmonic Au (1 wt%) catalysts deposited on hydrothermally synthesized TiO2 nanorods (TNR) were investigated in this study. Based the duration of mixing precursor/TNR suspension during wet impregnation synthesis and parameters end calcination, Au/TiO2 with different sizes nanoparticles (Au NPs) obtained. The prepared solids thoroughly characterized by several instrumental techniques to investig...

TiO2+Pt plasmonic solids with 1 wt% Pt and different TiO2 supports (anatase nanoparticles (TNP), polycrystalline nanorods (a-TNR) single-crystal anatase (TNR)) were synthesized using the wet impregnation technique tested as photo, thermal photothermal catalysts in gas-solid gas-liquid-solid reactions. Due to charges of support surfaces, particles sizes, crystallinities degrees interaction forme...

Nanosized semiconductors and metals [1, 2] are extensively studied due to their unusual catalytic and opto-electronic properties, ultimately traceable to the large fraction of atoms residing at the surface compared to the bulk, and to confinement of charge carriers inside a small volume of material. At present, major goals in modern material chemistry are represented by the ability to design, f...