微波制备沸石负载N/TiO_2光降解催化剂及对罗丹明B的降解

以沸石为载体,以钛酸丁酯和尿素为助剂,采用溶胶-凝胶法制备沸石负载N/TiO2光降解催化剂.在可见光下对罗丹明B进行降解实验,讨论影响罗丹明B降解性能的主要因素.结果表明,当微波反应15min,焙烧温度为450℃、催化剂用量为40 mg/L、光照时间为30 min时,样品对罗丹明B的降解率可达99.2%以上.光降解催化剂再生后重复使用4次,降解率仍可达89.7%.

CuCoO_x/TiO_2催化氧化NO性能研究

采用浸渍法制备了CuCoOx/TiO2催化剂,考察了焙烧温度、反应温度、氧含量、NO浓度和空间速度对催化剂催化氧化NO性能的影响,并考察了催化剂的抗硫抗水性能。XRD、TPR和BET分析表明,350℃焙烧的催化剂具有Cu-Co2O4尖晶石结构,比表面积大,对NO的氧化效果好。在空速为5000 h-1,NO进口浓度500 mg/m3,含氧量10%的条件下,反应温度300℃时NO转化率可达79.5%,250℃时NO转化率接近50%。该催化剂具有良好的单独抗SO2、抗H2O毒化性能,H2O和SO2同时存在时很快失活。该催化剂可用于不同时含H2O和SO2的含NO气体催化氧化后再吸收处理。

Effects of nitrogen doping on surface-enhanced Raman scattering(SERS)performance of bicrystalline TiO_2 nanofibres

In this work, we successfully synthesized bicrystalline anatase/TiO2（B） nanofibre and used it as active substrate for surface-enhanced Raman scattering （SERS） applications. The bicrystalline structured TiO2 substrates provide additional charge transfer across the anatase-TiO2（B） interface and thus enhanced activity compared to the pure single crystalline phase. With an effort to further increase the sensitivity of SERS, nitrogen element was doped into bicrystalline anatase/TiO2（B） nanofibres （N-TiO2） and higher SERS enhancement was achieved. The nitrogen content was controlled by tuning the calcination temperature of titanate precursor at 500, 600 and 700℃, respectively. The sample calcined at 600℃ （NT600） acquires the highest percentage of nitrogen element due to its open pore structure that facilitates the diffusion of nitrogen during calcination. Raman intensity depends on the amount of nitrogen doping, thus NT600 exhibited the best SERS activity. The doped nitrogen in TiO2 facilitates the charge transfer between TiO2 and probing molecules and thus suppresses the electron-hole recombination. This work provides a new perspective on the design of efficient TiO2 SERS active substrate and is expected to be valuable for adsorbate detection on semiconductor surface.

Induced antibacterial capability of TiO2 coatings in visible light via nitrogen ion implantation

In order to enhance the antibacterial ability of titanium components,an antibacterial coating was fabricated on Ti surface by micro-arc oxidation(MAO)and further nitrogen plasma immersion ion implantation(N-PIII).The XPS spectra demonstrated that nitrogen was incorporated into TiO2 coatings by N-PIII and the nitrogen content on the surface of TiO2 coatings increased as the N-PIII time increased.Nitrogen-incorporated samples exhibited remarkably increased absorbance in the visible region and the light absorption edge of nitrogen-incorporated samples showed a redshift compared to MAO samples.Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus were seeded on the samples to assess their antibacterial ability.The bacterial experiment demonstrated that nitrogen-incorporated TiO2 could effectively reduce the bacterial viability in visible light.Thus,the antibacterial TiO2 coatings fabricated by MAO and further N-PIII might have large potential in the medical and marine fields.

Band structures of TiO_2 doped with N, C and B

This study on the band structures and charge densities of nitrogen (N)-, carbon (C)- and boron (B)-doped titanium dioxide (TiO2) by first-principles simulation with the CASTEP code (Segall et al., 2002) showed that the three 2p bands of im-purity atom are located above the valence-band maximum and below the Ti 3d bands, and that along with the decreasing of im-purity atomic number, the fluctuations become more intensive. We cannot observe obvious band-gap narrowing in our result. Therefore, the cause of absorption in visible light might be the isolated impurity atom 2p states in band-gap rather than the band-gap narrowing.

Effect of Dispersity and Porous Structure of TiO2 Nanopowders on Photocatalytic Destruction of Azodyes in Aqueous Solutions

Photocatalytic activity of TiO2 nanopowders of anatase modification with various particle sizes and specific surface areas has been studied in the process of photocatalytic decolorization of aqueous solutions of methylene blue and direct blue 2C azodyes. By means of scanning electron microscopy and low-temperature N2 adsorption method, it was found that TiO2 nanopowders have the particles size of 5-120 nm with the specific surface area of 15-120 m2·g^-1. The used TiO2 samples are characterized by mesoporous structures with average pore size of 4.3-14.9 nm. The photocatalytic activity of TiO2 was evaluated via decolorization of azodyes solutions. It was shown that the efficiency of decolorization symbatically changes with the dye adsorption value on TiO2 surface and the degree of decolorization rises when the surface area of TiO2 nanopowders increases. It was found that TiO2 photocatalytic activity essentially depends on adsorption interactions between the dye molecules and catalytic active centers on TiO2 surface, and these interactions, in turn, are greatly affected by pH of the solution.

Photocatalytic Activity of N-doped TiO2 Photocatalysts Prepared from the Molecular Precursor （NH4）2TiO（C2O4）2

We developed a novel approach for the preparation of N-doped TiO2 photocatalysts by calcining ammonium titanium oxalate at different temperatures. The structures of N-TiO2 were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, infrared spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, N2 adsorption-desorption isotherms, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, diffuse reflectance UV-Vis spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscope. The N-doped TiO2 photocatalysts calcined below 700 ℃ are the pure anatase phase but that calcined at 700 ℃ is a mixture of anatase and rutile phases. The doped N locates at the interstitial site of TiO2 which leads to the narrowing of bad gap of pure anatase N-TiO2. Among all photocatalysts, N-TiO2 photocatalysts calcined at 600 and 400 ℃ exhibit the best performance in the photodegradation of methyl orange under the UV light and all-wavelength light illuminations, respectively; however, because of the perfect crystallinity and the existence of anatase-rutile phase junctions, N-TiO2 photocatalyst calcined at 700 ℃ exhibits the highest specific photodegradation rate, i.e., the highest quantum yield, under both the UV light and all-wavelength light illuminations.

Effect of Ammonia Thermal Treatment on the Structure and Activity of Titanium Oxide Photocatalysts

Different titanium oxide powders （ATiO2, BTiO2） were pretreated in ammonia （NH3） gas at high temperatures. After the pretreatment, the color of the titanium oxide powders changed from white to yellow or gray depending on the pretreatment temperatures. Morphologies and structures of the treated titanium oxide powders were characterized by physical chemical methods. XRD measurements showed that the crystalline structures were mainly mixture of anatase and rutile for the ATiO2 but only anatase for the BTiO2, Stronger absorption of visible light was observed for both types of samples using UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectra. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy demonstrated that doped nitrogen existed on the surface TiO2 after ammonia gas pretreatment. The photocatalytic activities of the treated titanium oxide samples were evaluated via the photodegradation of methyl orange and phenol in aqueous suspensions. No obvious improvement in photocatalytic activity was achieved by ammonia pretreatment although it could enhance the absorption of light. Effects of treatment temperatures on photoactivities were complete different for ATiO2 and BTiO2 （i.e. higher treated temperatures yielded higher activities for BTiO2 but lower for ATiO2）. All samples yielded lower activity levels after ammonia pretreatment without regard to pretreatment temperature or the reaction light resource.