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Bronze TiO2 photocatalysis facilitates solution plasma production of H2O2
Composite Functional Materials 2025, 1(2)
Published: 23 December 2025
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Synergizing photocatalysis with external fields offers a promising strategy to surpass limitations of single catalytic systems, yet designing catalysts that works in multi-field remains challenging. In this work, we explore catalysts that improves photocatalysis in solution plasma to significantly enhance H2O2 production. We focus on bronze TiO2 and tune its crystallinity through an adjusted sodium titanate precursor route. In particular, the regular and wide tunnel structure of Na2Ti6O13 precursor results in bronze TiO2 with exceptional crystallinity. Upon introducing highly crystalline bronze TiO2 nanobelts into solution plasma, we effectively suppress the photocatalytic decomposition of H2O2 in plasma field, reducing the decomposition rate by 70% compared to commercial P25 TiO2 photocatalysts. Further carbon coating results in H2O2 concentrations up to 3.7 mmol/L, which is 1-3 orders of magnitude higher than most photocatalytic systems. Our work elucidates the potential photocatalytic effects within solution plasma and achieves synergy between photocatalysis and solution plasma.

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Tunable bismuth doping/loading endows NaTaO3 nanosheet highly selective photothermal reduction of CO2
Nano Research 2023, 16(2): 2142-2151
Published: 07 October 2022
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Photothermal CO2 reduction with H2O, integrating advantages of photocatalysis driven H2O splitting and thermal catalysis promoted CO2 reduction, has drawn sharply increasing attention in artificial synthesis of solar fuels. The photothermal effect of metal nanoparticles facilities CO2 hydrogenation and activation of lattice oxygen in oxide photocatalyst promotes H2O oxidation, which is essentially considered for highly efficient photothermal catalysis. However, the large thermal conductivity of most metal nanoparticles induces inevitable heat dissipation, restricting the increase of catalyst temperature. In this work, to minimize the heat dissipation, we employ bismuth nanoparticles as photothermal unit, which is of the lowest thermal conductivity in the metal family. Meanwhile, we adopt bismuth doped NaTaO3 as photocatalytic unit because of the bismuth doping induced activation of lattice oxygen. The bismuth nanoparticles are assembled with bismuth doped NaTaO3 through one-step tunable transformation from Bi4TaO8Cl. Benefiting from the photothermal effect, thermal insulation caused by bismuth metal, and lattice oxygen activation by bismuth doping, the NaTaO3:Bi hybrid exhibits high photothermal catalytic performance. The yield of CO over NaTaO3:Bi hybrid at 413 K via photothermal catalysis is 141 times higher than that room temperature photocatalysis. Further, ultraviolet (UV) light irradiation leads to 89.2% selectivity of CO and visible light irradiation leads to 97.5% selectivity of CH4. This work may broaden the photocatalytic application of ABO3 perovskite and provides a novel strategy for the development of photothermal catalysts for artificial photosynthesis.

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