Development of Visible Light Sensitive TiO2 Photocatalysts and Their Sensitization Using Fe3+ Ions
Development of Visible Light Sensitive TiO2 Photocatalysts and Their Sensitization Using Fe3+ Ions
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DOI:
10.1627/jpi.49.168
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发表时间:
2006
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1
通讯作者:
T. Ohno
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作者:
T. Ohno
Titanium dioxide photocatalysts are promising substrates for photodegradation of pollutants in water and air, but show photocatalytic activities only under UV light. To utilize a wider range of incident wavelengths such as solar light, development of photocatalysts active under visible light is very important. Chemically modified titanium dioxide photocatalysts were prepared containing anatase phase with S (S 4+ ) substituted for some lattice Ti atoms or N substituted for some lattice O atoms. These catalysts showed strong absorption of visible light and high activities for degradation of 2-propanol in aqueous solution and partial oxidation of adamantane under irradiation at wavelengths longer than 440 nm. The oxidation states of the S and N atoms incorporated into the TiO 2 particles were determined to be mainly S 4+ and N 3- from XPS spectra, respectively. The photocatalytic activities of S- or N-doped TiO 2 photocatalysts with adsorbed Fe 3+ ions were markedly improved for oxidation of 2-propanol compared to those of S- or N-doped TiO 2 without Fe 3+ ions under a wide range of incident wavelengths, including UV light and visible light. The photocatalytic activity reached maximum with 0.90 wt% Fe 3+ ions adsorbed on S-doped TiO 2 , and 0.36 wt% Fe 3+ ions on N-doped TiO 2 . Furthermore, redox treatment of S- or N-doped TiO 2 photocatalysts with adsorbed Fe 3+ ions by reduction with NaBH 4 followed by air oxidation resulted in further improvements in photocatalytic activities. In this case, the optimum amounts of Fe 3+ were 2.81 and 0.88 wt% on the surfaces of S- and N-doped TiO 2 photocatalysts, respectively.