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JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY A-CHEMISTRY
Volume 199, Issue 1, Pages 64-72Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2008.05.004
Keywords
self cleaning textile; smart textile; photocatalysis; titania; Au/TiO2; Ag/TiO2 and methylene blue (MB); photodegradation
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- Regione Piemonte (Progetto NANOMAT, Docup 2000-2006, Linea 2.4a)
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Au/TiO2 cotton nanocomposite textile was prepared at low temperature (similar to 100 degrees C) by sol-gel and photodeposition Process designed for practical applications. The Au/TiO2 nanoparticles have been found to form a homogeneous thin film on the fibre surface and to show efficient photocatalytic properties upon exposure to solar light. Stains cleaning measurements showed that the gold/TiO2-coated cotton fibres possess photocatalytic activity higher than that of TiO2-cotton fibres. For this reason the produced composite cotton fibres display high potential and commercial importance for visible light self cleaning properties. The original and treated fibres have been characterized by several techniques (SEM, HRTEM, FTIR, Raman, UV-vis spectroscopy and XRD). (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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