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Photoinduced reactivity of titanium dioxide
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In this paper, photo-induced superhydrophilicity was used on the surface of a wide-band gap semiconductor like titanium dioxide (TiO 2 ) for photocatalytic activity towards environmentally hazardous compounds.About:
This article is published in Progress in Solid State Chemistry.The article was published on 2004-01-01. It has received 4241 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Superhydrophilicity & Photocatalysis.read more
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A Systematic Study of the Effect of Silver on the Chelation of Formic Acid to a Titanium Precursor and the Resulting Effect on the Anatase to Rutile Transformation of TiO2
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of increasing amounts of silver on the extent of chelation of a formate group to a titanium precursor and the resulting effects on the transformation of anatase to rutile has been studied.
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Innovative W-doped titanium dioxide anchored on clay for photocatalytic removal of atrazine
TL;DR: In this paper, W-TiO2/clay photocatalysts were successfully synthesized by a facile sol-gel method using different W dopant concentrations (0.5, 2 and 5 M%).
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Synthesis of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles for Photocatalytic Degradation of Cyanide in Wastewater
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the synthesis of titanium dioxide nanoparticles with maximum photocatalytic properties and their application for the treatment of cyanide in wastewater, and demonstrate that an increase in sulfate ion leads to changes in the phase ratios of rutile to anatase.
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One-Step Synthesis of Bifunctional TiO2 Catalysts and Their Photocatalytic Activity
Jun Fang,Fucheng Shi,Jing Bu,Jianjun Ding,Shutao Xu,Jun Bao,Yunsheng Ma,Zhiquan Jiang,Weiping Zhang,Chen Gao,Weixin Huang +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the anatase TiO2 catalysts have been characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, N2 adsorption−desorption isotherms, diffuse reflectance UV−vis spectroscopy, infrared spectrograph, X-rays photoemission spectrogram, NH3 temperature-programmed desorption, and solid-state MAS NMR spectrometer.
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Effect of microstructure and crystallinity on the photocatalytic activity of TiO2 thin films deposited by dc magnetron sputtering
TL;DR: In this paper, the microstructure, optical and photocatalytic properties of the thin films were investigated using SEM, UV-VIS spectroscopy and a custom made test reactor, respectively.
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