Published May 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Synthesis of visible light-activated TiO2 photocatalyst via surface organic modification

  • 1. Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039 (China)
  • 2. State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001 (China)
  • 3. Key Laboratory of Carbon Material, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001 (China)

Description

A visible light-activated TiO2 photocatalyst was successfully synthesized by the surface organic modification to sol-gel-hydrothermal synthesized TiO2. The surface hydroxyls of TiO2 nanoparticles reacted with the active -NCO groups of tolylene diisocyanate (TDI) to form a surface complex that was confirmed by the FT-IR and XPS spectra. Due to the existence of surface complex, the absorption edge of as-prepared TDI-modified TiO2 nanomaterial extended well into visible region. Compared with unmodified TiO2 and Degussa P25, the TDI-modified TiO2 photocatalysts showed higher activity for the photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue under visible light irradiation. - Graphical abstract: A visible light-activated TiO2 photocatalyst was successfully synthesized by the surface organic modification to TiO2. The surface hydroxyls of TiO2 nanoparticles reacted with the active -NCO groups of tolylene diisocyanate (TDI) to form a surface complex. The TDI-modified TiO2 photocatalysts showed higher activity for the photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue under visible light irradiation

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.jssc.2007.03.010;
PII
S0022-4596(07)00107-7;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Solid State Chemistry
Journal Volume
180
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 1787-1791
ISSN
0022-4596
CODEN
JSSCBI

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