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Herein, ordered TiO2-Ag3PO4 nanorods are fabricated by loading Ag3PO4 nanoparticles on the as-prepared brookite TiO2 nanorods. The amount of Ag3PO4 nanoparticles loaded on brookite TiO2 nanorods can be rationally optimized. These hybrid TiO2-Ag3PO4 nanorods could provide large surface area, extend the visible light absorption and facilitate the charge separation, leading to efficient visible-light-driven photocatalytic performance. When evaluated as photocatalysts under visible light illumination, all the hybrid TiO2-Ag3PO4 nanorods exhibit high photocatalytic activity for degrading 2-propanol. Particularly, TiO2-Ag3PO4-3 enables the best photocatalytic property, which yields high acetone production of 147 ppm at 3 h and CO2 production of 424 ppm at 11 h.

In this work, the branched MoS2 nanowires are synthesized by a facile and feasible reflux method. It is clearly that the MoS2 nanowires interconnect with each other, forming regular branched network. In this fabrication, the polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) is used as surfactant which is critical for the formation of branched MoS2 wires. Without the PVP, only MoS2 nanoparticles can be obtained.

In this work, the design and synthesis of ZnS/MoS2 hybrid nanoparticle film directly grown on Mo foil is reported by a one-step hydrothermal reaction. The as-prepared hybrid composite film exhibits a specific capacitance of 956.3 F g−1 at 10 mA cm−2 which is about 6.4 times of the pristine MoS2 film (150 F g−1 at 10 mA cm−2), and excellent cycling stability (85.7% capacity retention after 2000 cycles). Generally, the greatly enhanced electrochemical performance is attributed to the robust nanoparticle structure on Mo foil, providing large surface, close contact between the substrate and active materials, and low inner resistance. In addition, these two kinds of active materials provide a synergistic effect for the improved capacitive property.