Research of characterization of zinc ferrite, titanium dioxide and their composites

College of Resources, Environment and Materials, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China

^a email:1915392020@st.gxu.edu.cn
^b email:2215394007@st.gxu.edu.cn
^c email:2215394012@st.gxu.edu.cn
^*d Correspondence author: email:1615391004@alu.gxu.edu.cn

Abstract

In this paper, zinc calcines, sulfuric acid, ferric nitrate nine-hydrate, zinc nitrate hexahydrate, titanium oxide sulfate, sodium hydroxide and ammonia water were selected as raw materials, and the methods of sulfuric acid leaching and chemical coprecipitation were used to prepare purified zinc ferrite, synthetic zinc ferrite, synthetic titanium dioxide and its composite with purified zinc ferrite. And characterized by BET, UVVis and FTIR. The results showed that: SO₄^2- existed in purified zinc ferrite. Purified zinc ferrite, synthetic zinc ferrite and purchased had different specific surface area, pore volume and average pore size. The specific surface area of synthetic zinc ferrite decreased with the increase of calcination temperature. The three kinds of zinc ferrite had good absorption of ultraviolet light and visible light. Purchased ferric acid had the strongest absorption of UV light and synthetic zinc ferrite had the strongest absorption of visible light, and purified zinc ferrite had the absorption of UV light and visible light between the two. The specific surface area of titanium dioxide prepared by chemical coprecipitation method was greatly affected by calcination temperature. With the increase of calcination temperature, the specific surface area decreased from 123.633 to 28.036m²·g^-1, and the average pore diameter was less affected by calcination temperature. For the zinc ferrite/titanium dioxide composite prepared by chemical coprecipitation method, a certain amount of purified zinc ferrite was added to facilitate the absorption of visible light by titanium dioxide.