p-Nitrophenol (PNP) is a difficultly decomposed organic pollutant under solar light in the absence of strong oxidants. This study shows that under artificial solar light PNP can be effectively degraded by a Cu(2)O/TiO(2) p-n junction network which is fabricated by anodizing Cu(0) particles-loaded TiO(2) nanotubes (NTs). The network is composed of p-type Cu(2)O nanowires on the top surface and Cu(2)O nanoparticles on the inner walls of the n-type TiO(2) NT arrays. The Cu(2)O/TiO(2) network shows much higher degradation rate (1.97 μg/min cm(2)) than the unmodified TiO(2) NTs (0.85 μg/min cm(2)). The enhanced photocatalytic acitivity can be attributed to the extended absorption in the visible resulting from the Cu(2)O nanowire networks and the effective separation of photogenerated carriers driven by the photoinduced potential difference generated at the Cu(2)O/TiO(2) p-n junction interface.
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