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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 38, Issue 5, Pages 2144-2155Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2012.12.005
Keywords
Photo-splitting; Water; Methanol; TiO2
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- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [IPT-120000-2010-033]
- Ministry of Education and Science
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TiO2-based photocatalyst materials were synthesized through a sol-gel method, followed either by: (1) hydrothermal treatment (150 degrees C/24 h), or (2) heat treatment (calcination) in a temperature range between 400 and 900 degrees C. The resulting materials were characterized through BET, XRD, TEM, FTIR, RAMAN, laser diffraction and UV-Vis Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy. Photoactivity of the various materials was checked against photocatalytic water-splitting for hydrogen production and a relationship between TiO2 structure and hydrogen production capacity was identified. Optimum results were obtained for anataserutile mixtures in a ratio of 87:13. The activity of the home-made photocatalysts was also compared (under the same conditions) with the best commercially available materials which have been widely described in the literature: Hombikat UV100, Millenium PC100, Kronos vlp7000, Degussa P25 and Kemira 625. Copyright (C) 2012, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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