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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 4, Issue 3, Pages 1128-1132Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3ra44493g
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- New Staff Start-up Research Fund from School of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Taiyuan University of Science and Technology
- Monash University for the Monash Fellowship
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In this paper, we developed a new safe and facile route to prepare black titania at room temperature for visible light photocatalysis. The commercial Degussa P25 was used as the starting material, and it was hydrogenated at 35 bar hydrogen and room temperature for up to 20 days. The resulting hydrogenated P25 was characterized by XRD, FT-IR, Raman, UV-Vis, TEM and photocatalysis tests under visible light in methanol solution. It was found that P25 powders under hydrogen treated for more than 15 days have a dark appearance, a crystalline-disordered core-shell structure, unique phase structure and good photocatalytic performance. The H-2 evolution rates are 3.14, 3.56 and 3.94 mmol g(-1) h(-1) in 20% methanol solution for hydrogen treated P25 at 15, 17 and 20 days, respectively, which were largely higher than that with hydrogen treatment time less than 11 days. This work will provide a practical, green and facile method for the large scale synthesis of black titania at room temperature.
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