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  • Title: Sonochemical fabrication of novel square-shaped F doped TiO2 nanocrystals with enhanced performance in photocatalytic degradation of phenol.
    Author: Yu C, Fan Q, Xie Y, Chen J, Shu Q, Yu JC.
    Journal: J Hazard Mater; 2012 Oct 30; 237-238():38-45. PubMed ID: 22947181.
    Abstract:
    A sonochemical method was developed for the fabrication of novel square-shaped TiO(2) nanocrystals doped with different F contents. The prepared samples were characterized by some physicochemical characterizations like X-ray diffraction (XRD), N(2) physical adsorption, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Fourier transform infrared spectrum (FT-IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy and UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectra (DRS). Phenol, as a hazardous chemical in water, was chosen to evaluate the photocatalytic degradation performance of the prepared TiO(2) nanocrystals under UV light irradiation. Results show that under ultrasonic irradiation conditions, F can easily be doped into TiO(2) and the obtained pure and F doped TiO(2) nanocrystals show mesoporous structures which were formed by the role of ultrasound-induced aggregation. Moreover, the doping of optimal content of F (1.3 mol%) gives 5.3 times increase in the phenol degradation rate. The high photocatalytic degradation activity of the doped TiO(2) could be attributed to the factor that F doping increases the surface hydroxyl groups over TiO(2) and effectively reduces the recombination rate of photo-generated electron/hole pairs, then producing more OH radicals to decompose the phenol molecules.
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