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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 529, Issue -, Pages 111-121Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2018.05.091
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ZrO2 doped TiO2 hollow microspheres; Bio-template; Solvothermal method; Photocatalytic; Mechanism analysis
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Zirconium dioxide (ZrO2) doped titanium dioxide (TiO2) spinous hollow microspheres were successfully prepared through a facile solvothermal method using sunflower pollen as bio-templates. The products were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), N-2 adsorption-desorption isotherms and UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. It was found that the products have spinous microsphere morphology with an approximate diameter of 12 mu m. The ZrO2 doped TiO2 hollow microspheres exhibited a higher photocatalytic activity in the degradation of Rhodamine B (RhB) in aqueous solutions under UV-light irradiation compared with TiO2 hollow microspheres and ZrO2-doped TiO2 particles. In particular, the removal of RhB followed pseudo-first-order kinetics, and 96.3% of RhB was degraded in 60 min under UV-light irradiation when ZrO2 doped TiO2 spinous hollow microspheres were used as the photo catalysts. Neutral and alkaline conditions were found to favor over acidic conditions for the photocatalytic degradation of RhB. Furthermore, scavenging experiments indicated that photogenerated holes (h(+))and radicals ((OH)-O-center dot and O-center dot(2)-) were the main reactive species in the photocatalytic process using ZrO2 doped TiO2 hollow microspheres as the catalysts under UV light irradiation. (C) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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