Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Synthesis and Photocatalytic Property of SiO2/TiO2

JIANG Dong1,2, XU Yao1, HOU Bo1, WU Dong1, SUN Yu-Han1   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, China; 2. Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2007-11-02 Revised:2007-12-19 Published:2008-09-20 Online:2008-09-20

Abstract: A series of SiO2/TiO2 photocatalysts were successfully synthesized via a solvothermal method using titanium n-butoxide, tetraethoxysilane, acetic acid and water as raw materials. As-synthesized SiO2/TiO2 catalyst was characterized by XRD, Raman, BET, TEM, FT-IR and XPS and its phtocatalytic activity was evaluated by the degradation of methylene blue under UV light irradiation. The results show that there is strong interaction between TiO2 and SiO2, and Ti-O-Si bonds are formed in the SiO2/TiO2 catalysts. The obtained catalysts have large surface area and high crystalline anatase. Compared with pure TiO2, the SiO2/TiO2 photocatalysts show better photocatalytic activity which can completely photodegrade MB after 65min UV light irridation.

Key words: solvothermal, SiO2/TiO2, photocatalytic activity

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