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Effect of phase composition on the photocatalytic activity of titanium dioxide obtained from supercritical antisolvent

Journal

JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 535, Issue -, Pages 245-254

Publisher

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2018.09.098

Keywords

Supercritical CO2 antisolvent; TiO2; Anatase; Rutile; Photocatalysis

Funding

  1. Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES-Brazil)
  2. Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq-Brazil)
  3. CAPES-Brazil
  4. CNPq-Brazil
  5. CNPq
  6. Fundacao Araucaria-Brazil

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Photocatalytic activity of TiO2 nanoparticles is highly dependent on their phase composition. The coexistence of anatase and rutile phases in a single nanoparticle eases the electron transfer process between the phases, and favors the separation of photogenerated pairs. In this work, highly photoactive mixed-phase TiO2 nanostructures were prepared by supercritical antisolvent precipitation (SAS), an environmentally friendly technology. It is shown here that this methodology has the remarkable ability to produce highly porous (515 m(2)/g) and crystalline TiO2 nanoparticles. The phase composition of as-prepared TiO2 samples can be tailored through annealing process. Several mixed-phase TiO2 samples were tested to assess the correlation between photocatalytic activity and phase composition. The photo catalytic performance is strongly affected by the anatase-rutile ratio, since the synergism between phases enhances the charge separation, reducing the recombination effect of the photogenerated pairs (e(-)/h(+)). It was found that the nanocatalyst composed by 7.0 wt% of rutile phase and 93.0 wt% of anatase phase, named as TiO2_650, presented the highest photodegradation for both methyl orange (MO) and methylene blue (MB) dyes. Interestingly, TiO2 samples prepared by SAS have superior photoactivity than the benchmark photocatalyst names as P25, which is a widely used TiO2 material composed of anatase and rutile phases. (C) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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