1. Tailoring the photocatalytic reaction rate of a nanostructured TiO2 matrix using additional gas phase oxygen
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Akhtarul Islam, Mohammed Mastabur Rahman, M. M. Alam, Sreejon Das, Sharmin Rahman Snigda, Cindy A. Morris, Richard D. Gonzalez, Nizam Uddin, Tarik Dickens, Ulrike Diebold, Okenwa I. Okoli, and Mohammed Jasim Uddin
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Materials science ,Nanoporous ,Scanning electron microscope ,Biomedical Engineering ,Pharmaceutical Science ,Medicine (miscellaneous) ,Nanochemistry ,Bioengineering ,Matrix (chemical analysis) ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,chemistry ,Chemical engineering ,Photocatalysis ,Organic chemistry ,Spectroscopy ,Methylene blue ,Sol-gel - Abstract
Nanostructured TiO2 was synthesized by the sol–gel method. The titania was supported on nanoporous poly (styrene-co-divinylbenzene) (PS). The samples were characterized by several techniques (scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy). Three types of TiO2 samples were prepared using various temperatures and were studied for the photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue. The photocatalytic efficiency of TiO2 was observed to increase by activating the TiO2 surface using nanoporous PS. The photocatalytic performance of the synthesized samples showed a higher performance using molecular O2, which was purged through the reactor.
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