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Chemically Modified Graphene Oxide-Wrapped Quasi-Micro Ag Decorated Silver Trimolybdate Nanowires for Photocatalytic Applications
journal contribution
posted on 2013-11-14, 00:00 authored by Kan Zhang, Nansra Heo, Xinjian Shi, Jong Hyeok ParkWe
report a simple and versatile strategy for hybridizing 1-D silver
trimolybdate wires (Ag2Mo3O10 Ws)
and graphene oxide (GO) by a direct solution process. Because of the
photoactive nature of Ag2Mo3O10 Ws,
Ag particles were uniformly formed on their surfaces with the assistance
of solar light. Enriched surface functional groups of GO from chemical
activation induce a chemical coordination with these Ag particles.
As a result, a uniform ternary hybrid mixture was successfully formed
with metallic Ag nanoparticles as a bridge connecting activated GO
and Ag2Mo3O10 Ws. We found that both
excited GO and Ag2Mo3O10 could generate
electron/hole pairs separated in space by metallic Ag as a solid-state
electron mediator. The novel photocatalytic mechanism was confirmed
using photocurrents, the electronic-band structure, and photoactivity
correlation analysis.