Journal
BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT
Volume 111, Issue -, Pages 72-79Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2016.10.019
Keywords
TiO2; Hybrid coatings; Photocatalysis; Self-cleaning; Hydrophobicity
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Building materials undergo degradation caused by pollutant agents. Different solutions are proposed for the preservation of building facades: one of them is to modify their surface in order to confer self-cleaning properties, that are obtained by superhydrophobic treatments or by use of photo-catalytic materials. This work describes the synthesis of three different TiO2 and SiO2 hybrid sols and their deposition as coatings on ordinary solid gray bricks used for building construction. The dried sols were characterized by TEM (STEM-EDX), Raman and XRD analyses, confirming their anatase nanocrystalline structure with a little amount of brookite. The coated surfaces of the bricks have been characterized by functional tests and show both hydrophobic and photocatalytic properties. Before irradiation all coatings display high water contact angle (WCA) > 145 degrees and Methylene Blue (MB) stains were photodegraded in a few hours under the irradiation of a solar lamp. The contact angles are reduced by long irradiation times but the hydrophobic properties are recovered keeping the samples in the dark. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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