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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 2, Issue 3, Pages 1748-1755Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2014.07.015
Keywords
Titanium dioxide thin films; Degussa P25 TiO2; Sol-gel technique; Photocatalysis; Stearic acid; Methylene blue
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- European Union
- Greek national funds
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TiO2 anatase and Degussa (Enovik) P25 thin films were deposited on glass using the sol-gel technique at 600 and 80 degrees C, respectively. The structural, morphological and optical properties of the as-grown TiO2 films were studied against their thickness, for both of the experimental procedures described. Moreover, the photocatalytic activity of the TiO2 samples was investigated regarding the degradation of stearic acid and the decolorization of methylene blue, under UV-A light illumination. In specific, the 90 nm-thick (4x) Degussa P25 TiO2 films deposited on glass at 80 degrees C is by far the more photocatalytically active against methylene blue decolorization, reaching an apparent rate constant of 0.094 min(1), while the photocatalytic activity of the 110 nm-thick (4x) TiO2 thin films deposited on glass at 600 degrees C by sol-gel show the highest stearic acid disappearance rate, i.e., 9.46 x 10(8) mol/min (formal quantum efficiency = 10.02 x 10(-3)) at 15 min of UV-A light illumination. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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