Transition Metal Doping Induces Ti3+ to Promote the Performance of SrTiO3 @TiO2 Visible Light Photocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to Prepare C1 Product.

Transition metal Fe, Co, Ni and Cu doped strontium titanate-rich SrTiO3 @TiO2 (STO@T) materials were prepared by hydrothermal method. The prepared doped materials exhibit better photocatalytic CO2 reduction to CH4 ability under visible light conditions. Among them, Fe-doped and undoped SrTiO3 @TiO2 under visible light conditions CO2 reduction products only CO, while M-STO@T (M=Co, Ni, Cu) samples converted CO2 to CH4 . The average methane yield of Ni-doped STO@T samples are as high as 73.85 µmol g-1 h-1 . The production of methane is mainly due to the increase in the response of the doped samples to visible light. And the increase in the separation rate of photogenerated electrons and holes and the efficiency of electron transport caused by the generation of impurity levels. The impurity level caused by Ti3+ plays an important role in the production of methane by CO2 visible light reduction. Ni doping effectively improves the photocatalytic performance of STO@T and CO2 reduction mechanism were explained.