Polymer photocatalysts with plasma-enhanced activity

Sprick, Reiner Sebastian; Cheetham, Kieran J.; Bai, Yang; Alves Fernandes, Jesum; Barnes, Michael; Bradley, James W.; Cooper, Andrew I.

Abstract

Plasma treatment was used as a new method to enhance the photocatalytic performance of a hydrophobic polymer photocatalyst. The sacrificial hydrogen evolution rate was enhanced by a factor of more than 8 after a plasma treatment time of 20 minutes. Contact angle measurements confirmed that the plasma treatment improved the wettability of the polymer film and XPS results indicated a surface chemical modification.

Citation

Sprick, R. S., Cheetham, K. J., Bai, Y., Alves Fernandes, J., Barnes, M., Bradley, J. W., & Cooper, A. I. (2020). Polymer photocatalysts with plasma-enhanced activity. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8(15), 7125-7129. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0ta01200a

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 28, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Mar 31, 2020
• Publication Date: Apr 21, 2020
• Deposit Date: Jul 31, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 1, 2021
• Journal: Journal of Materials Chemistry A
• Print ISSN: 2050-7488
• Electronic ISSN: 2050-7496
• Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 15
• Pages: 7125-7129
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d0ta01200a
• Keywords: Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment; General Materials Science; General Chemistry
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4738243
• Publisher URL: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/TA/D0TA01200A
• Additional Information: : This document is Similarity Check deposited; : Supplementary Information; : Reiner Sebastian Sprick (ORCID); : Reiner Sebastian Sprick (ResearcherID); : Kieran J. Cheetham (ORCID); : Yang Bai (ORCID); : Jesum Alves Fernandes (ORCID); : Jesum Alves Fernandes (ResearcherID); : James W. Bradley (ORCID); : Andrew I. Cooper (ORCID); : Single-blind; : Received 31 January 2020; Accepted 28 March 2020; Accepted Manuscript published 31 March 2020; Advance Article published 6 April 2020; Version of Record published 14 April 2020