Effect of Calcination Temperature on Photocatalytic Activity of Synthesized TiO2 Nanoparticles via Wet Ball Milling Sol-Gel Method

Autor: Tippabust Eksangsri, Panita Kasamechonchung, Tuksadon Wutikhun, Chaweewan Sapcharoenkun, Siripond Phromma
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
photocatalytic activity
Anatase
Materials science
tio2 nanoparticle
02 engineering and technology
010402 general chemistry
lcsh:Technology
01 natural sciences
law.invention
lcsh:Chemistry
Crystallinity
law
General Materials Science
Calcination
calcination temperature
lcsh:QH301-705.5
Instrumentation
Ball mill
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
lcsh:T
Brookite
TiO2 nanoparticle
Process Chemistry and Technology
General Engineering
particle size
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
lcsh:QC1-999
0104 chemical sciences
Computer Science Applications
lcsh:Biology (General)
lcsh:QD1-999
Chemical engineering
phase transition
lcsh:TA1-2040
visual_art
Photocatalysis
visual_art.visual_art_medium
Particle size
Crystallite
lcsh:Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
0210 nano-technology
lcsh:Physics
Zdroj: Applied Sciences, Vol 10, Iss 3, p 993 (2020)
Applied Sciences
Volume 10
Issue 3
ISSN: 2076-3417
Popis: In this work, TiO2 nanoparticles were successfully synthesized with narrow size distribution via a wet ball milling sol-gel method. The effect of calcination temperature on photocatalytic activity was observed from particle size, crystallite size, and phase transition of TiO2 nanoparticles. Increasing calcination temperature increased particle size, crystallite size, and the crystallinity of synthesized TiO2. Phase transition depended on variation in calcination temperatures. A two-phase mixture of anatase and brookite was obtained with lower calcination temperature whereas a three-phase mixture appeared when calcination temperature was 500&ndash
600 °
C. With higher temperature, the rutile phase kept increasing until it was the only phase observed at 800 °
C. Anatase strongly affected the photocatalytic activity from 300 °
C to 600 °
C while the particle size of TiO2 was found to have a dominant effect on the photocatalytic activity between 600 °
C and 700 °
C. A mixture of three phases of TiO2-600 exhibited the highest methylene blue degradation with the rate constant of 9.46 ×
10-2 h-1 under ultraviolet (UV) irradiation.
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