Anodisation of iron foil was done to produce anodic film with nanoporous structure. The effect of anodic voltage on the morphology of the anodic oxide formed was investigated. Anodic film formed on iron foil anodised at 10 V is rather compact no obvious pores. Pores can be detected on oxide anodised at 30 V despite not very uniform. For foil anodised at 50 V, 1.8 µm thick anodic layer which consisted of uniform circular pores is observed. This film was then annealed at 450°C for 3 h in air as to induce crystallinity. The annealed nanoporous film exhibits a light illuminated photocurrent of 0.45 mA in 1 M NaOH + H2O2 solution.
Cerium oxide (CeO2) or known as ceria were deposited on titanium dioxide, TiO2, nanotubes by electrodeposition process as to produce hybrid materials that can generate photocurrent. The electrodeposition process is done by using 0.1 M cerium chloride mixed with 0.1 M ammonium acetate as ligands to promote stability complexes in a standard two electrode bath. Voltage and pH were controlled to ensure the most optimum condition of cerium oxide deposition. Samples were then annealed at different temperatures. Photocurrent results indicate that annealed sample at 450°C shows the best photocurrent due to high degree of anatase and cubic crystallinity.
Nanoporous anodic WO3 was annealed at three different times of 1h, 2h, and 3h at a constant temperature of 500oC. This was to investigate the intercalation and deintercalation behaviour of Li+ in this annealed nanoporous oxide. The as-anodised WO3 is amorphous and after annealing, monoclinic WO3 was observed with much higher degree of crystallinity when the time of annealing was increased from 1h to 3h. By electrodiffusion of Li+ in the nanoporous structure, an ion exchange between fully oxidized states (W6+) which is the octahedral coordination dominates (WO6) and Li+ could happen. This causes changing of the colour of the yellowish WO3 to bluish WO3.Li2O. This work showed the effect of annealing time on intercalation of Li+ ion with WO3, however crystallinity can play a good role for electron movement, it cause a decrease in Li+ ion interaction with WO3.
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