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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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Using the Box-Benkhen technique to statistically model phenol photocatalytic degradation by titanium dioxide nanoparticles
TL;DR: In this article, a four factor three level Box-Benkhen design (BBD) was developed to describe the photocatalytic degradation of phenol in an aqueous media, and four process variables under consideration in BBD model included titanium dioxide (TiO2) catalyst size, TiO2 concentration, dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration and phenol concentration.
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Strategies to improve the photocatalytic activity of TiO2: 3D nanostructuring and heterostructuring with graphitic carbon nanomaterials.
TL;DR: This review focuses on two structural design strategies: monolithic three-dimensional (3D) nanostructuring, and heterostructure with graphitic carbon nanomaterials, which help achieve maximal utilization of the solar spectrum and charge separation and provides efficient TiO2 photocatalysts.
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Enhanced photoactivity with nanocluster-grafted titanium dioxide photocatalysts.
Min Liu,Ryota Inde,Masami Nishikawa,Xiaoqing Qiu,Daiki Atarashi,Etsuo Sakai,Yoshio Nosaka,Kazuhito Hashimoto,Masahiro Miyauchi,Masahiro Miyauchi +9 more
TL;DR: Titanium dioxide modified with two ubiquitous nanoclusters exhibited the highest quantum efficiency and reaction rate for 2-propanol decomposition among previously reported photocatalysts, even under visible-light irradiation (420-530 nm).
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Two-dimensional carbon-based nanocomposites for photocatalytic energy generation and environmental remediation applications
TL;DR: A comprehensive overview of the recent research progress in the field of energy generation and environmental remediation using two-dimensional carbon-based nanocomposites using graphene and graphitic carbon nitride as photocatalysts for energy and environmental applications is provided.
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Size-dependent modifications of the first-order Raman spectra of nanostructured rutile TiO 2
TL;DR: In this paper, the properties of the Raman spectra for a suite of rutile nanocrystals were analyzed and compared to the characteristics of Raman spectrum for nanoscale domains/crystallites embedded in thin films.
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