Photoactivity of Anatase–Rutile TiO2 Nanocrystalline Mixtures Obtained by Heat Treatment of Titanium Peroxide Gel

2011 ◽  
Vol 1352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Snejana Bakardjieva ◽  
Jan Subrt ◽  
Petra Pulisova ◽  
Monika Marikova ◽  
Lorant Szatmary

ABSTRACTNanosized titanium dioxide photocatalysts with anatase structure or mixture of anatase and rutile phases have been synthesized. Homogeneous precipitation of aqueous solutions containing TiOSO4 and ammonia and following treatment with H2O2 was used to prepare porous yellowish (Ti-Per) gel. The gel was lyophilized for 48h and (Ti-Per)LYO-powder was obtained. Single phase anatase TiO2 samples were prepared by heating of the (Ti-Per)LYO powder. The lamella-like particle morphology of TiO2 samples determined by SEM were stable in air up to 950°C.The structure evolution during heating of the starting (Ti-Per)LYO powder was studied by DTA and XRD analyses in overall temperature range of phase transformation. The morphology and microstucture characteristics were also obtained by HRTEM and BET methods. The photocatalytic activity of the sample titania TI-LYO/950 heated to 950ºC in air contained 78.4% anatase and 21.6% rutile was higher than standard Degussa P25. Titania sample TI-LYO/950 reveals the highest catalytic activity during the photocatalyzed degradation course of 4-chlorophenol in aqueous suspension under UV-irradiation.

2020 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 10901
Author(s):  
Saloua El Asri ◽  
Hamid Ahamdane ◽  
Lahoucine Hajji ◽  
Mohamed El Hadri ◽  
Moulay Ahmed El Idrissi Raghni ◽  
...  

Forsterite single phase powder Mg2SiO4 was synthesized by sol–gel method alongside with heat treatment, using two different cation alkaline salts MCl as mineralizers (M = Na, K) with various mass percentages (2.5, 5, 7.5, and 10 wt.%). In this work, we report on the effect of the cation type and the added amount of used mineralizer on microstructure and electrical conductivity of Mg2SiO4. The formation of forsterite started at 680–740  °C and at 630–700  °C with KCl and NaCl respectively, as shown by TG-DTA and confirmed by XRD. Furthermore, the Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) transmission spectra indicated bands corresponding to vibrations of forsterite structure. The morphology and elemental composition of sintered ceramics were examined by SEM-EDX analyses, while their densities, which were measured by Archimedes method, increased with addition of both alkaline salts. The electrical measurements were performed by Complex Impedance Spectroscopy. The results showed that electrical conductivity increased with the addition of both mineralizers, which was higher for samples prepared with NaCl than those prepared with KCl.


2014 ◽  
Vol 989-994 ◽  
pp. 212-215
Author(s):  
J. Liu ◽  
G. Zhu ◽  
W. Mao

The effect of volume fraction of ferrite on the mechanical properties including strength, plasticity and wok hardening was systematically investigated in X80 pipeline steel in order to improve the plasticity. The microstructures with different volume fraction of ferrite and bainite were obtained by heat-treatment processing and the mechanical properties were tested. The work hardening behavior was analyzed by C-J method. The results show that the small amount of ferrite could effectively improve the plasticity. The work hardening ability and the ratio of yield/tensile strength with two phases of ferrite/bainite would be obviously better than that with single phase of bainite. The improvement of plasticity could be attributed to the ferrite in which more plastic deformation was afforded.


1990 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 1095-1103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann M. Kazakos ◽  
Sridhar Komarneni ◽  
Rustum Roy

Three series of cordierite powders were prepared by the sol-gel route: a single phase (monophasic) gel prepared from alkoxides, a nominally triphasic nanocomposite gel made with two nanosized powders and one solution phase, and a truly compositionally triphasic nanocomposite gel prepared from three nanosized powders. Crystalline α-cordierite seeds were also incorporated with the gels and their effectiveness as nucleating agents was investigated and found to lower the crystallization temperature of α-cordierite by 125–150°C. The densification behavior of powder compacts was examined and alterations made to the heat treatment until optimum conditions were found. The truly triphasic compact sintered at 1300°C for 2 h resulted in 100% of theoretical density whereas the nominally triphasic and monophasis pellets densified to 96% and 80%, respectively. The enhanced densification achieved with powder compacct prepared for triphasic nanocomposite gels is due to part to the excess free energy of the three components.


2020 ◽  
Vol 86 (9) ◽  
pp. 14-27
Author(s):  
Nataliy Globa ◽  
Tatyana Lisnycha ◽  
Yurii Shmatok ◽  
Vitalii Sirosh ◽  
Sviatoslav Kirillov

The paper presents structural, surface, thermodynamic and kinetic characteristics of titanium dioxide samples obtained by means of alkaline hydrolysis of TiCl4 by LiOH solutions and further heat treatment. TiO2 samples have the anatase structure with crystallite size of 7–10 nm. An increase in the heat treatment temperature from 150 °C to 470 °C leads to a decrease in the specific surface area from 404 to 80 m2/g and the total pore volume from 0.340 to 0.152 cm3/g. The influence of electrolyte composition and surface properties of TiO2 on its behavior in cells with lithium anode investigated by means of galvanostatic cycling and impedance spectroscopy is discussed.


Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 5494
Author(s):  
João A. O. Santos ◽  
Alessandra M. G. Mutti ◽  
Airton G. Bispo-Jr ◽  
Ana M. Pires ◽  
Sergio A. M. Lima

Luminescent organic-inorganic hybrids containing lanthanides (Ln3+) have been prominent for applications such as luminescent bio-probes in biological assays. In this sense, a luminescent hybrid based on dense silica (SiO2) nanospheres decorated with Eu3+ β–diketonate complexes using dibenzoylmethane (Hdbm) as a luminescent antenna was developed by using a hierarchical organization in four steps: (i) anchoring of 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES) organosilane on the SiO2 surface, (ii) formation of a carboxylic acid ligand, (iii) coordination of Eu3+ to the carboxylate groups and (iv) coordination of dbm− to Eu3+. The hybrid structure was elucidated through the correlation of thermogravimetry, silicon nuclear magnetic resonance and photoluminescence. Results indicate that the carboxylic acid-Eu3+-dbm hybrid was formed on the surface of the particles with no detectable changes on their size or shape after all the four steps (average size of 32 ± 7 nm). A surface charge of −27.8 mV was achieved for the hybrid, assuring a stable suspension in aqueous media. The Eu3+ complex provides intense red luminescence, characteristic of Eu3+5D0→7FJ electronic transitions, with an intrinsic emission quantum yield of 38%, even in an aqueous suspension. Therefore, the correlation of luminescence, structure, particle morphology and fluorescence microscopy images make the hybrid promising for application in bioimaging.


2013 ◽  
Vol 815 ◽  
pp. 765-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuo Dong Li ◽  
Dan Liu

Bi3NbTiO9 (BNTO) powders were synthesized by a sol-gel chemical method using niobium oxalates, bismuth nitrate and tetra-n-butyl-titanate as starting materials. In order to determine the influence of the molar ratio of the deionized water to ethylene glycol on the particle morphology and crystallization, different molar ratios, the deionized water/ethylene glycol, were chosen to prepare BNTO powders. Single phase BNTO powders could be obtained at a calcinations temperature of 600°C. Moreover, the possible formation mechanism of BNTO powders was also proposed in this paper. In the baking process, perovskite phase BNTO was formed via a reaction between oxides and bismuth niobium.


2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (07) ◽  
pp. 987-993
Author(s):  
S. SADEGHI-NIARAKI ◽  
S. A. SEYYED EBRAHIMI ◽  
SH. RAYGAN

Nanocrystalline strontium hexaferrite powder has been prepared by a new mechanochemical method in which the single phase hexaferrite was obtained via a sol–gel autocombustion process followed by an intermediate high energy milling step and subsequent annealing. The effects of the intermediate milling on the phase evolution, crystallite size and annealing behavior of the final products were investigated using the X-ray diffraction (XRD) technique. The single phase strontium hexaferrite was obtained at an annealing temperature of 800°C, while this temperature was 1,000°C for the powder synthesized without milling. It could be seen that an intermediate milling accelerates the formation of strontium hexaferrite during the calcination process. The results showed that in the milled powder, the average crystallite size of the ferrite was about 40 nm and much smaller than that of the nonmilled powder. Magnetic properties were also measured by a vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). The particle morphology was then studied by scanning and transmission electron microscopes (SEM and TEM).


2020 ◽  
Vol 786 ◽  
pp. 139451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu.Yu. Kaplanskii ◽  
P.A. Loginov ◽  
A.V. Korotitskiy ◽  
M.Ya Bychkova ◽  
E.A. Levashov

MRS Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (60) ◽  
pp. 3983-3988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Li ◽  
Shinji Hirai ◽  
Eiji Nakamura ◽  
Haibin Yuan

ABSTRACTThe formation of europium sulfides (Eu3S4 and EuS) via CS2 gas sulfurization of Eu2O3 powder was investigated. Single-phase Eu3S4 was obtained via CS2 gas sulfurization of Eu2O3 at 773 K for periods longer than 0.5 hr and EuS was generated by sulfurization at 1073 K for 8 hr. The higher sulfurization temperature and shorter sulfurization time accelerated the formation of high purity EuS. Synthetic pure Eu3S4 was treated under vacuum, rich-sulfur atmosphere and inert atmosphere, respectively. EuS was obtained when heat treatment was performed at 873 K under vacuum, at 973 K under CS2/Ar atmosphere, and at 1073 K under Ar atmosphere. Heat treatment of Eu3S4 generated a small amount of Eu2O2S due to impurity oxygen. Formation of Eu2O2S could be inhibited by heat treatment under CS2/Ar atmosphere.


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