Bio-inspired double-layer structure artificial microreactor with highly efficient light harvesting for photocatalysts

Yang, Q.; Liu, Jian; Li, H.; Li, Y.; Hou, J.; Li, M.; Song, Y.

doi:10.1039/c4ra15943h

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Yang, Q.

Liu, Jian

Li, H.

Li, Y.

Hou, J.

Li, M.

Song, Y.

Date

2015

Type

Journal Article

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Yang, Q. and Liu, J. and Li, H. and Li, Y. and Hou, J. and Li, M. and Song, Y. 2015. Bio-inspired double-layer structure artificial microreactor with highly efficient light harvesting for photocatalysts. RSC Advances. 5 (15): pp. 11096-11100.

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RSC Advances

DOI

10.1039/c4ra15943h

ISSN

2046-2069

School

WASM: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering (WASM-MECE)

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/71608

Collection

Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2015. Submerged aquatic leaf structures with two layers of epidermis tissue for light focusing and trapping, and spongy tissue for light scattering were introduced as templates to fabricate photocatalysts. The artificial TiO2leaf microreactors showed better photocatalytic efficiency than aquatic leaf with three layers structures, over 7 times larger than that of nanocrystalline of TiO2.