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MICROPOROUS AND MESOPOROUS MATERIALS
Volume 117, Issue 3, Pages 570-579Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2008.08.020
Keywords
Sol-gel; Photocatalyst; Nanoparticles; Photoreaction; Environment catalyst; Volatile organic compounds
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- Hong Kong Research Grant Council
- Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Commission
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Freestanding blocks of binary oxides, TiO2-SiO2 aerogel containing highly ordered mesophase structures were successfully prepared by a new synthesis method involving partial solvent evaporation followed by supercritical extraction and drying. The new method allows the routine preparation of large, crack-free aerogels of high titanium content (i.e., Ti/Si <= 0.75 or up to 50 wt.% Ti), ordered mesopores (i.e., 220 nm), large surface area (i.e., 400-900 m(2) g(-1)) and pore volume (i.e., 0.7-2.6 cm(3) g(-1)). Aerogels with well-ordered mesopores were obtained for Ti/Si atom ratios of 0.04-0.08. The size of ordered mesopore domains decreases with increasing titanium loading, and TS75 aerogels with Ti/Si = 0.75 display discontinuous microdomains of ordered mesoporosity within disordered phases interspersed with crystalline anatase TiO2. The greater permeability of the TS75 pore network resulted in fifteen times better activity for photocatalytic oxidation of airborne trichloroethylene compared to commercial Degussa P25 TiO2 and more than twice that TiO2-SiO2 aerogel (TS100) of similar titanium loading but with disordered and tortuous pore network. (c) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
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