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JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
Volume 34, Issue 3, Pages 731-738Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2013.09.013
Keywords
Al2O3 honeycomb ceramic; Microstructure; TiO2 coatings; Photocatalytic activity
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51172120, 51272301, 51172214]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2112M510788, 2013T60269]
- Program for the Top Young Academic Leaders of Higher Learning Institutions of Shanxi
- State Key Laboratory of New Ceramic and Fine Processing Tsinghua University
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In this work, porous alumina ceramics with highly ordered capillaries were successfully fabricated by ionotropic gelation process of alginate/alumina suspensions. By varying the initial solid loading (10-30 wt%) of slurries, the porosity of alumina ceramics ranged from 60.4% to 79.5% with controlled pore size (180-315 mu m). Due to the well-crosslinked macroporous structure and large specific surface areas, the porous ceramics were utilized as the photocatalyst supports of TiO2 catalysts whose photocatalytic activity was characterized by degrading methyl blue under UV irradiation. TiO2 coatings prepared by sol gel method demonstrated excellent adhesion to the substrates. When the solid loading of supports reached 15 wt%, the TiO2 coatings showed the highest photocatalytic efficiency of 79.52%. Besides, TiO2 films possessed nearly the same photocatalytic activity as titania/water suspension. Thus, the honeycomb ceramic prepared by self-organization process holds promise for use as photocatalyst supports in water purification without recycling process of powders. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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