Photocatalytic studies of tio2/sio2 nanocomposite xerogels

• Autor(a) principal: Waseen, Muhammad
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Shah, Zeban, Cataluña, Ricardo Verza, Dias, Silvio Luis Pereira, Lima, Éder Cláudio, Reis, Glaydson Simões dos, Vaghetti, Júlio César Pacheco, Alencar, Wagner Soares de, Mahmood, Khalid
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/159714
• topic: Fotocatálise; Dióxido de titânio; Dióxido de silício; Xerogel; Nanocompósitos; Photocatalysis; TiO2-SiO2 mixed oxide; LLS; FTIR; UV; XRD

The use of titania-silica materials in photocatalytic processes has been proposed as an alternative to the conventional TiO2 catalysts, in order to facilitate the separation of products after the reaction. However, despite the large number of research in this field, the mechanism governing the photocatalytic activity of the mixed TiO2/SiO2 oxides is not clear. Titania- Silica nanocomposite xerogels were prepared by sol-gel method. This work has been used to describe the synthesis and the photocatalytic properties of TiO2-SiO2 nanocomposite xerogel. The nanocomposite xerogels were prepared by keeping the molar ratio of TEOS:TTIP:MtOH:DIW at 1: 1:6:14 respectively and the catalysts used were HCl and NH4OH. After the preparation xerogels were characterized by FTIR, XRD, UV and LLS. All these techniques show the amorphous nature of Titania-silica xerogel.