PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY OF TIO2 POWDERS SUSPENDED IN AQUEOUS SILVER-NITRATE SOLUTION - CORRELATION WITH PH-DEPENDENT SURFACE-STRUCTURES
PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY OF TIO2 POWDERS SUSPENDED IN AQUEOUS SILVER-NITRATE SOLUTION - CORRELATION WITH PH-DEPENDENT SURFACE-STRUCTURES
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DOI:
10.1021/j100297a017
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发表时间:
1987-06-18
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KAGIYA, T
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作者:
OHTANI, B;OKUGAWA, Y;KAGIYA, T
Photocatalytic („> 300 nm) activity of anatase and rutile Ti02 powders suspended in AgNG3 solution was investigated at room temperature under Ar. The initial rate of the photocatalytic reaction producing 02 and Ag metal strongly depended upon the pH of suspension, ie, it decreased with decreasing pH, becoming negligible at pH< 2 with anatase and pH< 5 with rutile, respectively. The amount of Ag+ adsorbed on the Ti02 surfaces in the dark decreased with decreasing pH from8 to 2. The pH dependence of Ti02 activity was attributed predominantly to the Ag+ adsorption; the initial rates of the photocatalytic reactions by bothanatase and rutile Ti02 were in proportion to the amount of surface-adsorbed Ag+. The characterization of surface hydroxyl groups on the Ti02 powders by means of potentiometric titrationof the aqueous suspensions revealed that decreasing the pH causes the protonation of neutral hydroxyl groups into positively charged ones, which inhibits the Ag+ adsorption.