title: Carbon dioxide-enhanced photosynthesis of methane and hydrogen from carbon dioxide and water over Pt-promoted polyaniline-TiO2 nanocomposites.
abstract: The combination of polyaniline with TiO2 significantly enhanced the photocatalytic reduction of CO2 with H2O owing to the increased CO2 chemisorption and the facilitated separation of photogenerated electron-hole pairs. We discovered that CO2 played a unique role in enhancing the electron-hole separation and the photocatalytic activity for polyaniline-containing catalysts.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols, Ethers and Esters, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China. wangye@xmu.edu.cn zhangqh@xmu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Guodong
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Shunji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Qinghong
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Zhengfang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.forename: Ye
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000814:Aniline Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000378:metabolism*; D006859:Hydrogen / Q000378:metabolism*; D008697:Methane / Q000378:metabolism*; D053761:Nanocomposites / Q000737:chemistry*; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010788:Photosynthesis; D014025:Titanium / Q000737:chemistry*; D014867:Water / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000814:Aniline Compounds; C416807:polyaniline; D014867:Water; D002245:Carbon Dioxide; C009495:titanium dioxide; D006859:Hydrogen; D014025:Titanium; D008697:Methane