Microwave-hydrothermal preparation and visible-light photoactivity of plasmonic photocatalyst Ag-TiO2 nanocomposite hollow spheres.

Visible-light-driven plasmonic photocatalyst Ag-TiO(2) nanocomposite hollow spheres are prepared by a template-free chemically-induced self-transformation strategy under microwave-hydrothermal conditions, followed by a photochemical reduction process under xenon lamp irradiation. The prepared samples are characterized by using scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, N(2) adsorption-desorption isotherms, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, UV/Vis and Raman spectroscopy. Production of .OH radicals on the surface of visible-light illuminated TiO(2) was detected by using a photoluminescence method with terephthalic acid as the probe molecule. The photocatalytic activity of as-prepared samples was evaluated by photocatalytic decolorization of Rhodamine B (RhB) aqueous solution at ambient temperature under visible-light irradiation. The results show that the surface plasmon absorption band of the silver nanoparticles supported on the TiO(2) hollow spheres was red shifted, and a strong surface enhanced Raman scattering effect for the Ag-TiO(2) nanocomposite sample was observed. The prepared nanocomposite hollow spheres exhibits a highly visible-light photocatalytic activity for photocatalytic degradation of RhB in water, and their photocatalytic activity is higher than that of pure TiO(2) and commercial Degussa P25 (P25) powders. Especially, the as-prepared Ag-TiO(2) nanocomposite hollow spheres at the nominal atomic ratio of silver to titanium (R) of 2 showed the highest photocatalytic activity, which exceeds that of P25 by a factor of more than 2.

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