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Article Dans Une Revue Scientific Reports Année : 2015

Visible-light active conducting polymer nanostructures with superior photocatalytic activity

Srabanti Ghosh
Natalie Amoin Kouame
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Samy Remita
Laurence Ramos
Fabrice Goubard
Pierre-Henri Aubert
Alexandre Dazzi
Ariane Deniset-Besseau
Hynd Remita
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The development of visible-light responsive photocatalysts would permit more efficient use of solar energy, and thus would bring sustainable solutions to many environmental issues. Conductive polymers appear as a new class of very active photocatalysts under visible light. Among them poly(3,4- ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) is one of the most promising conjugated polymer with a wide range of applications. PEDOT nanostructures synthesized in soft templates via chemical oxidative polymerization demonstrate unprecedented photocatalytic activities for water treatment without the assistance of sacrificial reagents or noble metal co-catalysts and turn out to be better than TiO2 as benchmark catalyst. The PEDOT nanostructures exhibit a narrow band gap (E = 1.69 eV) and are characterized by excellent ability to absorb light in visible and near infrared region. The novel PEDOTbased photocatalysts are very stable with cycling and can be reused without appreciable loss of activity. Interestingly, hollow micrometric vesicular structures of PEDOT are not effective photocatalysts as compared to nanometric spindles suggesting size and shape dependent photocatalytic properties. The visible-light active photocatalytic properties of the polymer nanostructures present promising applications in solar light harvesting and broader fields.
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hal-01250170 , version 1 (27-05-2021)

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Srabanti Ghosh, Natalie Amoin Kouame, Samy Remita, Laurence Ramos, Fabrice Goubard, et al.. Visible-light active conducting polymer nanostructures with superior photocatalytic activity. Scientific Reports, 2015, 5, pp.18002. ⟨10.1038/srep18002⟩. ⟨hal-01250170⟩
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