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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
Volume 86, Issue 10, Pages 1677-1682Publisher
AMER CERAMIC SOC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.2003.tb03539.x
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Rutile titania nanocrystalline particles with high specific surface areas were directly prepared by thermal hydrolysis of titanium tetrachloride aqueous solution. The as-prepared rutile titania powder was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface area analysis, and Fourier transform Raman and IR spectroscopies. Neither anatase nor amorphous titania could be detected in this titania powder by XRD, Raman spectroscopy, and high-resolution TEM. In the phenol degradation reaction, the rutile titania powder with an initial crystalline size of 7 nm was found to have higher photocatalytic activity than that of anatase titania with the same specific surface area. The rutile titania powders calcined at 300degrees and 450degreesC also showed a relatively high photocatalytic property. The high activity of the as-prepared rutile titania was attributed to the abundance of hydroxy groups in the powder, as was proven by thermogravimetric analysis data, which provided more active sites for the degradation reaction.
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