Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Advances in Energy, Environment and Chemical Science

Hydrothermal Synthesis And Visible-light Photocatalytic Activity Of SnS2/TiO2 Composite Nanoflakes

Authors
Jing Li, Xihua Du, Zhiqiang Zhou, Yan Chen
Corresponding Author
Jing Li
Available Online May 2016.
DOI
10.2991/aeecs-16.2016.25How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Composite materials; In-situ synthesis; Photocatalysis; SnS2/TiO2
Abstract

SnS2/TiO2 composite photocatalysts with high visible-light photocatalytic activity were synthesized via the hydrothermal treated from tin (IV) chloride pentahydrate, citric acid, thioacetamide and commercial P25 TiO2 at 150 §C for 12h. Powder X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy revealed that products were bulk-pure hexagonal phase SnS2 and rutitle-anatase phase TiO2 nanoflakes. UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectra disclosed that the as-synthesized SnS2/TiO2 nanoflakes had optical bandgaps in the range of about 2.32 - 2.41 eV. In addition, the photocatalytic performances of the as synthesized SnS2-based nanoparticles were evaluated by degrading methyl orange (20 mg/L MO) in deionized water under the visible-light and real sunlight irradiation. The results demonstrated that all the SnS2 and SnS2/TiO2 products had high visible-light photocatalytic activity, and the most efficient photocatalyst was the molar ratios of Ti: Sn is 0.2. The greatly photocatalytic performance of the as-synthesized SnS2/TiO2 composite nanoparticles was mainly attributed to the matching band potentials of SnS2 and TiO2 and the efficient charge transfer and separation at their tightly integrated interface.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Advances in Energy, Environment and Chemical Science
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
May 2016
ISBN
10.2991/aeecs-16.2016.25
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/aeecs-16.2016.25How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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