Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Simple and Effective Preparation of N-doped TiO2 Nanocrystallites with Visible-light Activities

YANG Song-Wang; GAO Lian   

  1. State Key Lab of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure; Shanghai Institute of Ceramics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shanghai 20050; China

  • Received:2004-06-23 Revised:2004-07-20 Published:2005-07-20 Online:2005-07-20

Abstract: N-doped Ti02 nanocrystallites were prepared by mixing tetrabutyl titanate and urea in ethanol, then calcined at a certain temperature and time. The prepared powders were characterized by XRD, XPS and UV-Vis absorbance spectra and their photocatalytic activities under visible-light irradiation were also investigated. N-doped TiO2 prepared by this method could make its absorbance shoulder evidently shift into visible-light region. Also it has high photocatalytic activities in the degradation of methylene blue under visible-light irradiation.

Key words: N-doped, TiO2, nanocrystallite, photocatalysis, visible-light

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