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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS
Volume 5, Issue 8, Pages 1816-1827Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8qi00355f
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- Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan [20-2704/NRPU/RD/HEC/12]
- National University of Singapore [CENGas R-261-508-001-646]
- Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE AcRF Tier 1) [R-279-000-472-112]
- IRSIP scholarship of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan
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A new strategy for depositing highly dispersed Cu and Ni nanoparticles on the surface of TiO2 from a single source is demonstrated for photocatalytic hydrogen production. We used a newly synthesized cyanide-bridged hetero-bimetallic coordination polymer [{Cu-II(4,4-dipy)(2)}{Ni(CN)(4)}](n)0.7(C2H6O2).1.6(H2O) (CP-1) (4,4-dipy = 1,3-di(4-pyridyl)propane) as a single-source precursor of Cu-Ni nanoparticles. The structure of CP-1 was established by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis; CP-1 crystallizes in the monoclinic space group C2/c with = 111.67(3)degrees. CP-1/TiO2 composites containing different weight percentages of CP-1 were achieved by hydrolyzing titanium isopropoxide in the presence of CP-1. Highly dispersed Cu and Ni nanoparticles were deposited on TiO2 by the calcination of the CP-1/TiO2 composites at different temperatures (420 degrees C, 470 degrees C and 520 degrees C) in air followed by reduction in H-2/Ar atmosphere at 470 degrees C for 2 h. XRD, DRS/UV-Vis, TEM, Cu/Ni 2p XPS, and photoluminescence spectroscopy demonstrated the presence of CuO/Cu-0 and NiO/Ni-0 as active co-catalysts on the surface of TiO2. The 1 wt% Cu-Ni/TiO2-470 photocatalyst showed the maximum H-2 production activity of 8.5 mmol h(-1) g(-1) in a glycerol/water mixture (20 vol%). The results are anticipated to direct the future development of efficient, low-cost and noble metal-free semiconductor photocatalysts for solar H-2 production.
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