Photocatalytic Oxidation of Hexanol over Titanium Dioxide Supported on Mesoporous Silica

2015 ◽  
Vol 1112 ◽  
pp. 176-179
Author(s):  
Nur Umisyuhada Mohd Nor ◽  
Hendrik O. Lintang ◽  
Salasiah Endud ◽  
Leny Yuliati

In order to improve the efficiency of TiO2, material with large surface area such as mesoporous silica is usually used as a support. In this study, the TiO2 was dispersed on mesoporous silica, MCM-41 by an impregnation method, meanwhile the bulk TiO2 was prepared by sol gel method. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns showed that the intensities of diffraction peaks for MCM-41 decreased with the increase of the TiO2 loading, suggesting that the higher loading amount of TiO2 might lead to less ordered structure of MCM-41. The successful addition of TiO2 on MCM-41 was also confirmed from the fluorescence spectra, which the emission intensities of TiO2 and MCM-41 increased and decreased, respectively, with the increase of TiO2 loading on the MCM-41. The activities were compared between the bulk and dispersed TiO2 for photocatalytic oxidation of hexanol. Both bulk and dispersed TiO2 on MCM-41 showed good photocatalytic activity, while the MCM-41 did not show photocatalytic activity. Since the efficiency of photocatalyst can be defined by its respective turnover number (TON), the comparison between bulk and dispersed TiO2 on MCM-41 was made based on their TON values. It was revealed that the dispersed TiO2 on the MCM-41 with 5 wt% of TiO2 loading was the most efficient photocatalyst among all the samples.

2011 ◽  
Vol 197-198 ◽  
pp. 926-930
Author(s):  
Min Wang ◽  
Qiong Liu ◽  
Chen Zhi Jiang

FeVO4photocatalysts were synthesized via a surfactant-assisted sol-gel method and characterized with X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microsoope (SEM)and specific surface area (BET). The photocatalytic activity was evaluated by photocatalytic degradation of methyl orange (MO) solution under visible light. The XRD patterns of no-surfactant-assisted, PEG-assisted, CTAB-assisted and SDS-assisted FeVO4, indicate that diffraction peaks can be well indexed as triclinc FeVO4. And the crystalline sizes of samples were evaluated as 113, 69, 66, 76 nm for FVO, FVO-PEG, FVO-CATB and FVO-SDS respectively.The addition of surfactant woul greatly affect the morphology of FeVO4photocatalysts, which can lead to different photocatalytic activities between them. In the experimental conditions used, the PEG-assisted FeVO4product had a much higher photocatalytic activity (the photodegradation rate was about 77% or so in 14h) than the other three products.


2010 ◽  
Vol 105-106 ◽  
pp. 380-382
Author(s):  
Zhi Dong Han ◽  
Qing Rui Zhao ◽  
Li Min Dong ◽  
Ze Wu ◽  
Xian You Zhang

Nano-size BaM hexaferrites (BaLa0.5Fe11.5O19) were synthesized in the presence of SiO2 nano- particles by sol-gel method. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns of ferrites annealed at above 900°C manifested that all the species had hexagonal crystal structure and no diffraction peaks of SiO2 found. Compared with BaLa0.5Fe11.5O19 powders, those synthesized in the presence of SiO2 nano-particles presented in smaller powder size, as proved by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). As a result, SiO2 nanoparticles promoted the formation of more homogeneous and finer ferrite crystal while the structure of hexaferrites consisted with that synthesized without SiO2 nano-particles. Microwave absorbing properties were evaluated. As a result, BaLa0.5Fe11.5O19/SiO2 showed good microwave absorbing properties with the maximum absorption more than 20dB.


2010 ◽  
Vol 97-101 ◽  
pp. 1611-1615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Wang ◽  
Xin Li Li ◽  
Wei Nie ◽  
Yong Mei Xia ◽  
Jian Feng Dai

The ZnO/TiO2 composite films were deposited over glass using spin coating technique by sol-gel process. Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) were used to modify the ZnO/TiO2 films successfully in this paper. The structure and composition of the ZnO/TiO2 composite and SWNTs doped ZnO/TiO2 composite were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD). The morphology of samples was characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The photocatalytic activity was investigated by photocatalytic degradation of aqueous methyl orange under ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The UV-vis absorption spectra of the ZnO/TiO2 films and SWNTs doped ZnO/TiO2 films in the wavelength region 200~800 nm were obtained. The results indicate that the SWNTs addition can decrease the grain size of ZnO/TiO2, which can enhance the photocatalytic activity. UV-vis absorption spectra of SWNTs-ZnO/TiO2 showed obvious blue shifts compared with ZnO/TiO2. The optimal amount of doping SWNTs is 1% according to this research. The enhanced mechanism of the SWNTs for the photocatalytic activity in ZnO/TiO2 films was analyzed in this article.


2017 ◽  
Vol 727 ◽  
pp. 327-334
Author(s):  
Yan Wang ◽  
Jun Wang ◽  
Xiao Fei Zhang ◽  
Ya Qing Liu

La-Nd co-doped barium hexaferrites, Ba0.7(LamNdn)0.3Fe12O19 (D-BaM), were successfully prepared by sol-gel method. PANI / D-BaM composites were synthesized by in-situ polymerization in solution. The structure, morphology and properties of samples have been characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM), four-probe conductivity tester and vector network analyzer. The XRD patterns showed that the crystal structure of all the samples exist as M-type phases. The SEM images revealed that the particles presented a hexagonal platelet-like morphology. The magnetic properties could be improved by substitutions of La and Nd ions. The saturation magnetization (Ms) and coercive force (Hc) increased with the change of La / Nd ratio to the maximum at La / Nd = 3:1. The doped particles have also been embedded in conductive PANI to prepare electromagnetic materials, and the conductivity kept on the order of 10-2. The microwave absorbing properties of composites at 30 MHz-6 GHz improved obviously, the peak value of reflection loss could reach-7.5 dB.


2012 ◽  
Vol 518-523 ◽  
pp. 775-779 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Dong Tan ◽  
De Fu Bi ◽  
Peng Hui Shi ◽  
Shi Hong Xu

The TiO2/NiFe2O4 (TN) composite nanoparticles with different mass ratios of NiFe2O4 to TiO2 were prepared via sol-gel method. X-ray diffraction was used to characterize the phase structure of TN. The results indicated that adulterating a smidgen of NiFe2O4 into the TiO2 (about 0.1%) can promote the phase transformation of TiO2, however, when the doping amount of NiFe2O4 surpasses 1%, the introduction of NiFe2O4 can inhibit the growth of TiO2 crystal grain and reduce the size of TiO2 crystal grain. The degradation experiment of methyl orange solution under UV illumination (253.7 nm) showed that the content of NiFe2O4 in the TN was higher, the photocatalytic activity of TN was worse, and the 0.1% TiO2/NiFe2O4 calcined at 400 °C presented the best photocatalytic activity.


2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (01) ◽  
pp. 1450254 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Shayani Rad ◽  
A. Kompany ◽  
A. Khorsand Zak ◽  
M. E. Abrishami

Pure and silver added zinc oxide nanoparticles ( ZnO -NPs and ZnO : Ag -NPs) were synthesized through a modified sol–gel method. The prepared samples were characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. In the XRD patterns, silver diffracted peaks were also observed for the samples synthesized at different calcination temperatures of 500°C, 700°C, 900°C except 1100°C, in addition to ZnO . TEM images indicated that the average size of ZnO : Ag -NPs increases with the amount of Ag concentration. The PL spectra of the samples revealed that the increase of Ag concentration results in the increase of the visible emission intensity, whereas by increasing the calcination temperature the intensity of visible emission of the samples decreases.


2014 ◽  
Vol 809-810 ◽  
pp. 890-894
Author(s):  
Dan Li ◽  
Lian Wei Shan ◽  
Gui Lin Wang ◽  
Li Min Dong ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
...  

Boron-BiVO4 samples were synthesized by sol-gel method. They were characterized by UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction. Photocatalytic activity of the obtained BiVO4 samples was investigated through degrading methylene blue (MB). The results reveal that boron-BiVO4 catalysts have monoclinic scheelite structure. The BiVO4 and Co-BiVO4 photocatalysts were responsive to visible light. Co-BiVO4 photocatalyst showed higher photocatalytic activity than pure BiVO4, resulting in the significantly improved efficiency of degradation of MB.


2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 509-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Chao ◽  
X. Xiangxin ◽  
C. Xiaozhou ◽  
Y. He ◽  
Ch. Gongjin

In this paper, we studied the effect of Ti addition on the microstructure and fracture toughness of Boron nitride- Aluminum (BN-Al) composite materials that were synthesized by vacuum infiltration. The BN-Al composite materials were fabricated by preheating the [Ti+BN] preforms at 1700º for 1 hour before Al alloys were infiltrated into the preforms in a vacuum atmosphere at 1100º for 2 hours. X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns showed that the diffraction peaks of titanium diboride (TiB2) appeared when the [Ti+BN] preforms were preheated. It is thought that metal Al protected are visible and this could be achieved by the generation of TiB2 when Al infiltrated into the preform from fractography. The matching fracture toughness of the [Ti+BN] preforms gradually improve when Ti content was increased.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 47

In this study, the surface of TiO2 was coated with SiO2 and Al2O3 layers by sol-gel and chemical deposition methods. Firstly, the TiCl4 was magnetically stirred for 1 h in deionized water, and then the NaOH solution was drop wised to the solution and stirred 2h. Finally, the obtained TiO2 was washed, filtered, and dried in a vacuum oven. The surface of TiO2 was coated with SiO2 and Al2O3 layers subsequently by chemical deposition methods. The morphological, thermal, and crystal properties of products were determined via SEM, TGA, and XRD machines. The X-ray diffraction peaks displayed that the TiO2 nanoparticles were synthesized without any extra peaks. Moreover, the SiO2 and Al2O3 coated TiO2 particles contain extra SiO2 and Al2O3 peaks, indicating that the surface of TiO2 was coated via SiO2 and Al2O3. The SEM results displayed that TiO2 and SiO2 and Al2O3 coated TiO2 were spherical in shape, and the size distribution was found to be around 20-50 nm and 200-300 nm, respectively. The photocatalytic and UV–vis analyses were used to determine the CO2 reduction and optical properties of particles. The results showed that the absorption peaks were broad to longer wavelength with a coating of SiO2 and Al2O3. The CO2 reduction performance of TiO2 has been enhanced via coating SiO2 and Al2O3 layer.


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