TY - JOUR
T1 - Facile synthesis of efficient photocatalytic tantalum nitride nanoparticles
AU - Wang, Zheng
AU - Wang, Jiangting
AU - Hou, Jungang
AU - Huang, Kai
AU - Jiao, Shuqiang
AU - Zhu, Hongmin
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by National Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51102015 and 21071014 ), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. FRF-AS-11-002A and FRF-TP-12-023A ), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 20110490009 ), Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (No. 20110006120027 ), the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (No. IRT0708 ), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University ( NCET-11-0577 ), and National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, No. 2007CB613301 ).
PY - 2012/11
Y1 - 2012/11
N2 - Tantalum nitride nanoparticles, as visible-light photocatalysts were synthesized by a two-step homogeneously chemical reduction without any polymers and templates. The well-crystallized Ta 3N 5 nanoparticles with a range of 20-50 nm in size have been characterized by a number of techniques, such as XRD, XPS, SEM, TEM, BET and UV-Vis spectrum. Most importantly, the Ta 3N 5 nanoparticles with good stability exhibited higher photooxidation activities in the water splitting and degradation of methylene blue under visible light irradiation than bulk Ta 3N 5 particles and commercial P25 TiO 2, demonstrating that Ta 3N 5 nanoparticle is a promising candidate as a visible-light photocatalyst.
AB - Tantalum nitride nanoparticles, as visible-light photocatalysts were synthesized by a two-step homogeneously chemical reduction without any polymers and templates. The well-crystallized Ta 3N 5 nanoparticles with a range of 20-50 nm in size have been characterized by a number of techniques, such as XRD, XPS, SEM, TEM, BET and UV-Vis spectrum. Most importantly, the Ta 3N 5 nanoparticles with good stability exhibited higher photooxidation activities in the water splitting and degradation of methylene blue under visible light irradiation than bulk Ta 3N 5 particles and commercial P25 TiO 2, demonstrating that Ta 3N 5 nanoparticle is a promising candidate as a visible-light photocatalyst.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.materresbull.2012.06.054
DO - 10.1016/j.materresbull.2012.06.054
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84866732667
SN - 0025-5408
VL - 47
SP - 3605
EP - 3611
JO - Materials Research Bulletin
JF - Materials Research Bulletin
IS - 11
ER -
