One-Step Preparation of High Performance TiO2/CNT/CQD Nanocomposites Bactericidal Coating with Ultrasonic Radiation

Abstract

As an environmental semiconductor material, TiO2 has important applications in the fields of environmental protection and water treatment. The preparation of P25 particles into nano-functional material films with a high specific surface area has always been a bottleneck limiting its large-scale application. In this paper, a one-step method of preparing TiO2 nanocomposites by doping carbon nanotube (CNT) and carbon quantum dots (CQD) with tetrabutyltitanate and P25 TiO2 under ultrasonic radiation is proposed to synthesize a novel antifouling material, which both eliminates the bacterium of Escherichia coli and shows good photoelectric properties, indicating a great value for the industrial promotion of TiO2/CNT. This mesoporous composite exhibits a high specific surface area of 78.07 M2/g (BET) and a tested pore width range within 10–120 nm. The surface morphology of this composite is characterized by TEM and the microstructure is characterized through XRD. This preparation method can fabricate P25 particles into a nano-functional material film with a high specific surface area at a very low cost.

Physicochemical and Antibacterial Evaluation of TiO2/CNT Mesoporous Nanomaterials Prepared by High-Pressure Hydrothermal Sol–Gel Method under an Ultrasonic Composite Environment

“…It has been reported in the literature that the combination of carbon materials and titanium dioxide can prepare excellent nanocomposite functional materials and exhibit various excellent properties. Especially in the fields of energy and environment, human beings urgently need to find sustainable energy materials and environmental governance materials [ 18 , 24 , 25 , 26 ]. However, the interfacial bonding performance of composite materials has always been a key factor affecting their development, and the composite interface of titanium dioxide and carbon materials in particular has always attracted the research of scientists.…”