Boosted hydrogen evolution activity from Sr doped ZnO/CNTs nanocomposite as visible light driven photocatalyst |
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| Authors: | Irshad Ahmad Shazia Shukrullah Muhammad Yasin Naz Muhammad Athar Rasheed Mukhtar Ahmad Ejaz Ahmed Muhammad Shoaib Akhtar NR Khalid Abid Hussain Sadia Khalid |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Physics, University of Agriculture, 38040, Faisalabad, Pakistan;2. Department of Applied Chemistry, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan;3. Department of Physics, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, 60800, Pakistan;4. School of Computer and Communication, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, 10731, China;5. Department of Physics, University of Gujrat, 50700, Pakistan;6. Department of Physics, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan, 64200, Pakistan |
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| Abstract: | CNTs were decorated onto Sr doped ZnO nanoparticles to construct an efficient photocatalyst via a facile sol-gel method. The as-fabricated Sr doped ZnO/CNTs with recyclability exhibits Sr and CNTs content dependent hydrogen evolution activit under visible light illumination. The Sr doped ZnO/CNTs photocatalyst shows the highest hydrogen evolution rate of 2732.2 μmolh?1g?1, which is 33.7 and 2.83 times higher than pure ZnO and Sr doped ZnO photocatalysts, respectively. The improved hydrogen evolution activity of Sr doped ZnO/CNTs is primarily assigned to high surface area, Sr doping and construction of heterojunction, which can extend the light absorption, decrease the optical band gap and improve the charge separation. Moreover, the underlying photocatalytic mechanism is proposed on the basis of Mott-Schottky study and explains the interfacial charge transfer process from ZnO to CNTs and Sr. This work open new strategies to synthesize CNTs based nanocomposite for hydrogen evolution. |
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| Keywords: | ZnO CNTs Sol gel Water-glycerol Hydrogen evolution |
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