Recently, under the circumstances of pandemic of COVID-19 much attention has been paid to titanium dioxide TiO<sub>2</sub> as bactericidal agent;however, conventional TiO<sub>2</sub> requires u...Recently, under the circumstances of pandemic of COVID-19 much attention has been paid to titanium dioxide TiO<sub>2</sub> as bactericidal agent;however, conventional TiO<sub>2</sub> requires ultraviolet radiation or visible light to exercise its photocatalytic properties and its induced antimicrobial activity. In order to expand its applications directed at wide civil life, antibacterial TiO<sub>2</sub> being usable under dark conditions has been demanded. The present paper describes the powder characterization of newly developed potassium K and phosphorous P co-doped nanometer-size anatase TiO<sub>2</sub> powders using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning and transmission electron microscopies (SEM & TEM), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller method (BET), fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS), electron spin resonance (ESR) and chemiluminescence (CL). It was found for the first time that thus prepared anatase TiO<sub>2</sub> could submit much reactive oxygen species (ROS) even in the dark, which has close relation with bactericidal activity in light interception.展开更多
文摘Recently, under the circumstances of pandemic of COVID-19 much attention has been paid to titanium dioxide TiO<sub>2</sub> as bactericidal agent;however, conventional TiO<sub>2</sub> requires ultraviolet radiation or visible light to exercise its photocatalytic properties and its induced antimicrobial activity. In order to expand its applications directed at wide civil life, antibacterial TiO<sub>2</sub> being usable under dark conditions has been demanded. The present paper describes the powder characterization of newly developed potassium K and phosphorous P co-doped nanometer-size anatase TiO<sub>2</sub> powders using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning and transmission electron microscopies (SEM & TEM), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller method (BET), fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS), electron spin resonance (ESR) and chemiluminescence (CL). It was found for the first time that thus prepared anatase TiO<sub>2</sub> could submit much reactive oxygen species (ROS) even in the dark, which has close relation with bactericidal activity in light interception.
