Development of High Surface Area Titania on Glass Fibre Supports for Photocatalysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 196-202
Author(s):  
Pelin Yilmaz ◽  
Armando Marsden Lacerda ◽  
Igor Larrosa ◽  
Steve Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Visible Light ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Glass Fibre ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
High Surface ◽  
Hydrothermal Process ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Electron Hole ◽  
Order Of Magnitude

We show that we have developed a hydrothermal process that produces a high surface area TiO2on glass fibre supports. The as produced titania shows good photocatalytic activity against a standard commercial dye – Rhodamine B– giving full decolourisation within 3 hours under UV and visible light irradiation. The samples are mechanically robust and can act as a photocatalytic filter for waste streams and pollutants. In addition to testing the standard titania we also photochemically deposit nanostructures of Pd. These hybrid catalysts show enhanced decolourisation by an order of magnitude over the native titania systems. This enhanced performance is due to the increased energy harvesting of the hybrid system through a visible light plasmon interaction and the direct injection of electrons from the noble metal into the adsorbed dye molecules. There is a clear relationship between the absorbed light and photochemical reactivity of the system which is further explained in terms of electron hole generation and separation and plasmonic interaction. In summary, we have generated a high performance catalyst that is produced on a bulk commodity substrate with enhanced activity due to control of the surface plasmon and direct band gap transition of electron hole pairs in the semi-conductor.

High Surface Area SnO2 -Ta2 O5 Composite for Visible Light-driven Photocatalytic Degradation of an Organic Dye

2018 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 633-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bharath Velaga ◽  
Pradeep P. Shanbogh ◽  
Diptikanta Swain ◽  
Chandrabhas Narayana ◽  
Nalini G. Sundaram
Keyword(s):  
Visible Light ◽  
Photocatalytic Degradation ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Organic Dye ◽  
Visible Light Driven

scholarly journals UV/Vis Light Induced Degradation of Oxytetracycline Hydrochloride Mediated by Co-TiO2 Nanoparticles

Molecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soukaina Akel ◽  
Redouan Boughaled ◽  
Ralf Dillert ◽  
Mohamed El Azzouzi ◽  
Detlef W. Bahnemann
Keyword(s):  
Surface Area ◽  
Bacterial Infections ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Initial Reaction Rate ◽  
Initial Reaction ◽  
Co Doping ◽  
Vis Spectroscopy

Pharmaceuticals, especially antibiotics, constitute an important group of aquatic contaminants given their environmental impact. Specifically, tetracycline antibiotics (TCs) are produced in great amounts for the treatment of bacterial infections in both human and veterinary medicine. Several studies have shown that, among all antibiotics, oxytetracycline hydrochloride (OTC HCl) is one of the most frequently detected TCs in soil and surface water. The results of the photocatalytic degradation of OTC HCL in aqueous suspensions (30 mg·L−1) of 0.5 wt.% cobalt-doped TiO2 catalysts are reported in this study. The heterogeneous Co-TiO2 photocatalysts were synthesized by two different solvothermal methods. Evonik Degussa Aevoxide P25 and self-prepared TiO2 modified by the same methods were used for comparison. The synthesized photocatalysts were characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), UV/vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS), and N2 adsorption (BET) for specific surface area determination. The XRD and Raman results suggest that Ti4+ was substituted by Co2+ in the TiO2 crystal structure. Uv/visible spectroscopy of Co-TiO2-R showed a substantial redshift in comparison with bare TiO2-R. The photocatalytic performance of the prepared photocatalysts in OTC HCL degradation was investigated employing Uv/vis spectroscopy and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The observed initial reaction rate over Co-TiO2-R was higher compared with that of Co-TiO2-HT, self-prepared TiO2, and the commercial P25. The enhanced photocatalytic activity was attributed to the high surface area (153 m2·g−1) along with the impurity levels within the band gap (2.93 eV), promoting the charge separation and improving the charge transfer ability. From these experimental results, it can be concluded that Co-doping under reflux demonstrates better photocatalytic performances than with the hydrothermal treatment.

scholarly journals The synthesis of a BiOClxBr1−x nanostructure photocatalyst with high surface area for the enhanced visible-light photocatalytic reduction of Cr(vi)

RSC Advances ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 4763-4771 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Bilal Hussain ◽  
Malik Saddam Khan ◽  
Herman Maloko Loussala ◽  
Muhammad Sohail Bashir
Keyword(s):  
Visible Light ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Photocatalytic Reduction ◽  
Synthetic Process ◽  
Visible Light Photocatalytic

Cr(vi) reduction is performed by BiOCl0.8Br0.2 composite produced via a facile in situ synthetic process at room temperature while making use of PVP (Mw = 10 000).

scholarly journals Synthesis of a high-surface area V2O5/TiO2–SiO2 catalyst and its application in the visible light photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue

RSC Advances ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (42) ◽  
pp. 24368-24376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajay Kumar Adepu ◽  
Srinath Goskula ◽  
Suman Chirra ◽  
Suresh Siliveri ◽  
Sripal Reddy Gujjula ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Methylene Blue ◽  
Visible Light ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Bet Surface Area ◽  
Titanium Silicate ◽  
Ft Ir ◽  
Synthesized Materials ◽  
Visible Light Photocatalytic

In the present study, we synthesized several high-surface area V2O5/TiO2–SiO2 catalysts (vanado titanium silicate, VTS). The synthesized materials are characterized by PXRD, FE-SEM/EDAX, TEM, BET-surface area, FT-IR, UV-Vis, XPS, fluorescence and photocatalytic studies.

Modulating interleaved ZnO assembly with CuO nanoleaves for multifunctional performance: perdurable CO2 gas sensor and visible light catalyst

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 1848-1861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shravanti Joshi ◽  
Ram Kumar C. B. ◽  
Lathe A. Jones ◽  
Edwin L. H. Mayes ◽  
Samuel J. Ippolito ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visible Light ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Gas Detection ◽  
Visible Light Photocatalysis ◽  
Co2 Gas ◽  
Co2 Gas Sensor ◽  
Catalytic Role

Efficient CO2 gas detection and visible light photocatalysis performance shown by interleaved CuO/ZnO heterostructures ascribed primarily to the high surface area, p/n nano-interfaces and catalytic role of Ag.

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