Hydrothermal synthesis of flower-like TiO2 nanocrystals/graphene oxide nanocomposites

A facile hydrothermal method has been developed to be capable of decorating graphene oxide (GO) with flower-like TiO2 nanocrystals without using any bridging species. The flower-like TiO2 nanocrystals were uniformly self-assembled on the surface of GO nanosheets. The photocatalytic activity experiment indicated that the prepared TiO2/GO nanocomposites exhibited a higher photocatalytic activity for the photocatalytic degradation of rhodamine B (RB) aqueous solution under the UV illumination, this methodology made the synthesis of TiO2/GO nanocomposites possible and may be further extended to prepare more complicated nanocomposites based on GO for technological applications.