Inverse effects of lanthanide co-doping on the photocatalytic hydrogen production and dye degradation activities of Cu doped sol-gel TiO2

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Tarih

2023

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Yayıncı

Elsevier

Erişim Hakkı

info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess

Özet

Copper doped and lanthanide-copper co-doped titania powders were prepared by sol-gel technique and the effects of co-doping on the photocatalytic reduction and oxidation activities of titania were investigated in this work. Characterization studies indicated that a reduced structure was formed due to the presence of Ti3+ species in copper doped titania powder and a more stable structure was formed when lanthanides were used as co-dopants. Copper doped powder had a significantly higher activity in photocatalytic hydrogen production (1037 mu mol/g/h) than the co-doped powders (similar to 400 mu mol/g/h). The oxidation activities of co-doped powders however were determined to be about 2 times higher than that of the copper doped powder. The decrease in the reduction activity was attributed to the decrease in the number of Ti3+ sites, whereas the increase in oxidation activity was probably a result of the increase in the surface area and dye adsorption due to lanthanide co-doping.

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Anahtar Kelimeler

Photocatalysis, Oxidation/reduction, Lanthanide, Copper, Co-doping, Titania

Kaynak

Materials Science and Engineering B-Advanced Functional Solid-State Materials

WoS Q Değeri

Q2

Scopus Q Değeri

Q1

Cilt

298

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