The superior photocatalytic performance and DFT insights of S-scheme CuO@TiO₂ heterojunction composites for simultaneous degradation of organics.

ABSTRACT: The necessity to resolve the issue of rapid charge carrier recombination for boosting photocatalytic performance is a vigorous and challenging research field. To address this, the construction of a binary system of step-scheme (S-scheme) CuO@TiO₂ heterostructure composite has been demonstrated through a facile solid-state route. The remarkably enhanced photocatalytic performance of CuO@TiO₂, compared with single TiO₂, which can consequence in the more efficient separation of photoinduced charge carriers, reduced the band gap of TiO₂, improved the electrical transport performance, and improved the lifetimes, thus donating it with the much more powerful oxidation and reduction capability. A photocatalytic mechanism was proposed to explain the boost

SUBMITTER: Hamad H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8828870 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature