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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 38, 2018
2018 4th International Conference on Energy Materials and Environment Engineering (ICEMEE 2018)
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Article Number | 02014 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Material Science and Technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20183802014 | |
Published online | 04 June 2018 |
Enhanced photocatalytic activity of wool-ball-like TiO2 microspheres on carbon fabric and FTO substrates
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School of materials science and engineering, Hubei University of Automotive Technology, Shiyan, 442002, P.R. China.
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College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing Univerisy, Nanjing 210093, China.
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Institute of Materials Engineering, Nanjing University, Nantong 226019, Jiangsu, P. R. China.
* Corresponding author: zhangy@huat.edu.cn
The wool-ball-like TiO2 microspheres on carbon fabric (TiO2-CF) and FTO substrates (TiO2-FTO) have been synthesized by a facile hydrothermal method in alkali environment, using commercial TiO2 (P25) as precursors. The XRD results indicate that the as-prepared TiO2 have good crystallinity. And the SEM images show that the wool-ball-like TiO2 microspheres with a diameter of 2-3 μm are composed of TiO2 nanowires, which have a diameter of ~50 nm. The photocatalytic behavior of the wool-ball-like TiO2 microspheres, TiO2-CF and TiO2-FTO under ultraviolet light was investigated by a pseudo first-order kinetic model, using methyl orange (MO) as pollutant. The wool-ball-like TiO2 microspheres obtained a degradation rate constant (Kap) of 6.91×10-3 min-1 . The Kap values of TiO2-FTO and TiO2-CF reach 13.97×10-3 min-1 and 11.80×10-3 min-1, which are 2.0 and 1.7 times higher than that of pristine wool-ball-like TiO2 microspheres due to the “sum effect” between TiO2 and substrates. This study offers a facile hydrothermal method to prepare wool-ball-like TiO2 microspheres on CF and FTO substrates, which will improve the recyclability of phtocatalysts and can be extended to other fields.
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