Assembling UiO-66 into layered HTiNbO5 nanosheets for efficient photocatalytic CO2 reduction
Ning Liu, Bin Hu, Kexin Tang, Tingyu Xia, Fei Li, Guixiang Quan, Xiaodong Zhang, Liang Tang
Abstract
In the pursuit of restoring and preserving our planet's natural equilibrium, the development of photocatalytic agents with exceptional aptitude for CO 2 reduction stands as an essential undertaking, which would be greatly facilitated with the energy regeneration and environmental purification. Herein, a composite material HTiNbO 5 /UiO-66 (UTi) was amalgamated by a one-step solvothermal method . The resultant composite material exhibited remarkable improvement on the photoreduction efficiency of CO 2 reduction compared with pristine UiO-66 and HTiNbO 5 . Impressively, UTi composite with 3 wt% HTiNbO 5 (UTi-3) illustrated the highest CO 2 photoreducation activity to CO, the CO yield of UTi-3 was about 9.3 and 11.2 times higher than that of pure UiO-66 and HTiNbO 5 , respectively. The significantly improved photocatalytic performance could be ascribed to the enlargement of specific surface area , the improved visible-light absorption range and shrinkage of the energy band gap, which can increase photogenerated electron production to promote the reduction reaction of CO 2 to CO. The insights obtained from this study can guide the application of semiconductor composites in the field of CO 2 photocatalytic reduction, so as to design high efficiency photocatalysts .