采用水热法和低温浸渍法制备了电子助剂还原石墨烯(rGO)和界面活性位点Ni(Ⅱ)共修饰的高效TiO2光催化剂(简称Ni(Ⅱ)/TiO2-rGO)。制氢性能测试结果表明:相比于TiO2和单独还原石墨烯复合的TiO2,经还原石墨烯与Ni(Ⅱ)协同修饰后的TiO2表现出更高的光催化制氢性能。其中,Ni(Ⅱ)/TiO2-rGO(0.1 mol·L-1)具有最高制氢性能,制氢速率达到77.0μmol·h-1,分别是TiO2(16.4μmol·h-1)和TiO2-rGO(28.0μmol·h-1)的4.70倍和2.75倍。还原石墨烯助剂与Ni(Ⅱ)活性位点协同增强制氢性能的原理是:还原石墨烯作为电子助剂可以快速捕获和传输电子,Ni(Ⅱ)作为界面活性位点可以从溶液中捕获H+,提高界面反应速率,2种助剂协同作用加快了TiO2上的光生电子-空穴对的有效分离。
Highly efficient TiO: photocatalysts co-modified by reduced graphene oxide (rGO) as electron -transfer mediator and Ni(Ⅱ) as interracial catalytic active-sites (referred to as Ni(Ⅱ)/TiO2-rGO) were synthesized via a two- step process including the initial hydrothermal method of rGO on the TiO2 surface and the following low- temperature impregnation method of Ni (Ⅱ) on the rGO. Photocatalytic experimental results indicated that all resulted Ni(Ⅱ)/TiO2-rGO photocatalysts exhibited obviously high H2-production performance. The highest Hz- production rate of the resultant Ni(Ⅱ)/TiO2-rGO (0.1 mol-L-1) reached 77.0 p, mol. h-1, while this value was higher than that of the TiO2 (16.4μ mol'h-) and TiO2-rGO (28.0 μmol.h-1) by a factor of 4.70 and 2.75, respectively. On the basis of the experimental resuhs,a synergistic effect mechanism of rGO and Ni(Ⅱ) bi-cocatalysts was proposed to account for its enhanced H2-production performance, namely, rGO functions as an electron-transfer mediator to rapidly capture and transfer the photogenerated electron from TiO2 surface, while the Ni(Ⅱ) cocatalyst serves as an effectively active site for the following reduction.