Chinese Journal of Catalysis ›› 2010, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (2): 163-170.

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Kinetics and Mechanisms for Photoelectrochemical Degradation of Glucose on Highly Effective Self-Organized TiO2 Nanotube Arrays

LIU Bingchuan, LI Jinhua, ZHOU Baoxue*, ZHENG Qing, BAI Jing, ZHANG Jialing, LIU Yanbiao, CAI Weimin   

  1. School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • Received:2010-02-25 Online:2010-02-25 Published:2013-09-02

Abstract: The current-time profile (Iph-t) of photoelectrocatalytic degradation of glucose on self-organized TiO2 nanotube arrays (TNAs) and the related differential coefficient profile (inset of the figure, dIph/dt-t) reveal three distinctive micro-kinetic degradation processes.

Key words: self-organized titania nanotube array, photoelectrochemical catalytic reaction, glucose, thin-layer cell, kinetic, mechanism