Modified hydrothermal method for synthesizing titanium dioxide-decorated multiwalled carbon nanotube nanocomposites for the solar-driven photocatalytic degradation of dyes.

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to address the issue of rapid electron-hole recombination in photocatalysis by exploiting multi-phase TiO₂ decorated on multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) to improve the photocatalytic degradation of dyes. A simple and eco-friendly one-pot method was utilized to create the TiO₂/MWCNT nanostructure using glucose as both a structure-directing agent and a carbon source without requiring any prior covalent or non-covalent functionalization of the MWCNTs at 160 °C. Furthermore, it was found that the average width of the nanocomposites changed from 20 ± 1 and 42 ± 2 nm to 56 ± 3 nm, corresponding to MWCNT contents of 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 (wt%), respectively. Specifically, TiO₂/MWCNTs with a low content of MWCNTs demonstrated enhanced performance

SUBMITTER: Trinh NB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11506254 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature