Sínteses e caracterizações de TiO2 puro, dopado e co-dopado pelo método sol-gel e suas atividades fotocatalíticas

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Ana Paula Nazar de
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15791
• topic: Titania; TiO2; doping; sol-gel method; heterogeneous photocatalysis; RY145 dye; Titânia, TiO2, dopagem, método sol-gel, fotocatálise heterogênea, corante RY145; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::QUIMICA::FISICO-QUIMICA

Titanium dioxide nanoparticles have been widely used as photocatalysts due to their efficien-cy in degrading a variety of pollutants. Aiming at obtaining titanium dioxides with different properties, several syntheses were performed using the sol-gel method, hydrolyzing titanium tetraisopropoxide (IV) TIPP and adopting Green Chemistry principles, avoiding high temperatures and pressures. The effect of different synthesis parameters, such as: pH, sol-vent, alcohol/TIPP molar ratio, and reagents addition order was assessed. Nanometric, mesoporous (mainly), anatase titanium dioxides with high specific surface area were obtained. Aiing at developing titanium dioxides with improved optical properties, that is, capable of undergoing photoactivation by visible light, doped and co-doped titanium dioxides with the metals iron and ruthenium (Fe3+ and Ru3+) and the nonmetal N (N3) were synthesized. Those materials were also synthesized by the sol-gel method, in which doping was carried out during the hydrolysis step. Samples were characterized in powder form by X-ray diffraction, nitrogen adsorption-desorption, scanning electron microscopy, and diffuse reflectance spec-troscopy in the UV-Visible range. Pure titania samples presented anatase as the sole crystal-line phase when calcined at 400°C, with traces amounts of brookite. At 600°C, it was ob-served rutile phase, which is the only one at 900°C. Doping with Ru3+ impaired the trans-formation of anatase to rutile, while just the opposite happened with Fe3+. The reagents order during the synthesis proved to be a very important parameter to be observed , since the surface area increases significantly and the amount of macropores in the final product. All doped titanium dioxides presented a slight decrease in the bandgap energy (red shift). Photocatalytic tests were performed aimed at degrading of the azo dye Reactive Yellow 145 with a 125 W mercury-vapor lamp. The performance of pure, doped, and co-doped titanium dioxides, calcined at 300°C was compared. Pure titanium dioxide showed the best results, with a simi-lar formance to Evonik sTiO2 P25