Citation: YU You-Yi, ZHANG Heng-Qiang. Reduced Graphene Oxide Coupled Magnetic CuFe₂O₄-TiO₂ Nanoparticles with Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity for Methylene Blue Degradation[J]. Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry, ;2016, 35(3): 472-480. doi: 10.14102/j.cnki.0254-5861.2011-1041 shu

Reduced Graphene Oxide Coupled Magnetic CuFe₂O₄-TiO₂ Nanoparticles with Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity for Methylene Blue Degradation

YU You-Yi ^a,, ,
ZHANG Heng-Qiang ^b

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a School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China;
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b Department of Chemistry, Hebei Normal University for Nationalities, Chengde, Hebei 067000, China

Corresponding author: YU You-Yi,
Received Date: 4 November 2015
Available Online: 14 December 2015
Fund Project: Supported by the National Natural Science Function of China (No. 21303058) (No. 21303058)

CuFe₂O₄-TiO₂/graphene nanocomposites have been prepared via a one-step hy-drothermal method, and the as-prepared CuFe₂O₄-TiO₂/graphene was characterized by X-ray powder diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. The transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that CuFe₂O₄-TiO₂ nanoparticles were successfully dispersed on the graphene sheets. Photocatalytic activity of nanocomposites was evaluated in terms of degradation of methylene blue (MB) dye solution under visible light radiation. Results showed that the photocatalytic efficiency of CuFe₂O₄-TiO₂/graphene nanocomposites was higher than its individual pure oxides (CuFe₂O₄ or TiO₂) and TiO₂/graphene. The enhancing photocatalytic activity performance of the CuFe₂O₄-TiO₂/graphene nanocomposites may attributed to the mutual effect between the CuFe₂O₄, TiO₂ nanoparticles and the graphene sheets. Moreover, CuFe₂O₄ nanoparticles have excellent magnetic property, which makes the CuFe₂O₄-TiO₂/graphene heteroarchitecture magnetically recyclable in a suspension system.
- photocatalysts,
- magnetic,
- CuFe₂O₄-TiO₂,
- graphene
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