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Construction of UiO-NH2@TiC Schottky Junction and Their Effectively Photocatalytic and Antibacterial Performance

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The hydrophilic Ti3C2, typical MXenes containing surface functional groups, possess excellent conductivity, was mainly applied in supercapacitors. However, it had not obvious photocatalytic and antibacterial activity because of high electron hole-pair recombination rate and concentration dependence. In this work, a novel MXenes-based Schottky junction (UiO-NH2@TiC) was fabricated by a simple solvothermal method using Ti3C2 as the conductive carrier and UiO66-NH2 as positively charged nano-MOFs (metal organic frameworks). After verifying the synthesis of UiO-NH2@TiC by SEM (scanning electron microscopy), EDS (energy dispersive spectrometer), XRD (powder X-ray diffraction), and FT-IR (Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy), its photochemical properties were also measured. Then, the photocatalytic antibacterial activity and the photodegradation behavior were investigated. The results indicated that UiO-NH2@TiC Schottky junction could not only remove the remaining antibiotics in wastewater (91%), but also effectively inhibited the growth of bacteria, and the inhibition rate of E. coli (Escherichia coli) and S. aureus (Staphylococcus aureus) more than 95% under visible light irradiation. In summary, it is an effective strategy for constructing functional Schottky junction. What’s more, the obtained Schottky junction has great potential in practical application.

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The project was supported the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21865030) and Gansu International Sci & Techn Coop-Base for Water-retention Functional Materials.

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Zhang, Y., Yang, H., Cao, P. et al. Construction of UiO-NH2@TiC Schottky Junction and Their Effectively Photocatalytic and Antibacterial Performance. J Clust Sci 34, 373–383 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10876-022-02233-6

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