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LANGMUIR
Volume 25, Issue 19, Pages 11586-11591Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la901505m
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- Northern Advancement Center for Science & Technology of Hokkaido Japan
- Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan [17206070]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17206070] Funding Source: KAKEN
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This paper presents valuable evidence in support of the removal of a contaminant hydrocarbon layer adsorbed on photocatalytic TiO2 film by the latter's photo-oxidization. UV light was radiated on an anodic TiO2 film in an atmosphere-con trolled chamber, and the Film was then transferred to an ultrahigh-vacuum chamber for X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic (XPS) analysis; during the transfer, care was taken to ensure that the Film was not exposed to air. This in situ setting eliminates the influence of carbon and water adsorptions during the transfer, thus enabling the accurate analysis of the UV-induced surface reaction. The spectral and quantitative results clearly revealed that the adsorbed hydrocarbon was removed from the photocatalytic TiO2 film when the Film was irradiated in an oxygen atmosphere. Such removal Occurs only in the case of TiO2 Films that exhibit superhydrophilicity. This indicates that the removal of hydrocarbon is dependent on the UV-induced hydrophilicity on the film. In situ XPS measurement also presented evidence for UV-induced hydroxide group adsorption, where the adsorption was observed on both the surfaces showing superhydrophilicity and devoid of it.
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