Crystallinity control on photocatalysis and photoluminescence of TiO2-based nanoparticles

Composition and phase control of Ni/NiO nanoparticles for photocatalytic degradation of EDTA

“…Most of previous reports devoted to remove EDTA from water using heterogeneous catalysis have been conducted using TiO 2 semiconductor catalyst irradiated with wide range of spectral lamps [15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. This means, to date there are challenges for developing the controlling parameters of the heterogeneous photocatalysis, including developing new types of catalyst, deep investigation on catalyst operation and its performance evaluation and other relevant aspects as well.…”

A facile one-pot hydrothermal method to prepare europium-doped titania hollow phosphors and their sensitized luminescence properties

“…In particular, titania as a valuable photocatalytic degradation material is used as a novel host material of rare-earth ions as a result of its unique optical and electrical capabilities [16,17]. Up to now, many different approaches including sonochemistry [18], nonionic surfactant-assisted soft-chemistry [19], microplasma oxidation [20], sol-gel [21] and hydrothermal method [22] had been developed to prepare europium-doped titania.…”

Facile hydrothermal synthesis and characteristics of B-doped TiO2 hybrid hollow microspheres with higher photo-catalytic activity

“…To evaluate the photo-catalytic of the as-prepared microspheres, the degradation of methylene blue dye with the initial concentration of 10 mg l −1 was carried out. The experimental data were converted to observed rate constants using pseudo-first-order kinetics model [37], shown in the upper left corner of Fig. 3.…”