Photocatalytic Crystalline and Amorphous TiO2 Nanotubes Prepared by Electrospinning and Atomic Layer Deposition
| Title: | Photocatalytic Crystalline and Amorphous TiO2 Nanotubes Prepared by Electrospinning and Atomic Layer Deposition |
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| Authors: | Orsolya Kéri, Eszter Kocsis, Dániel Attila Karajz, Zsombor Kristóf Nagy, Bence Parditka, Zoltán Erdélyi, Anna Szabó, Klára Hernádi, Imre Miklós Szilágyi |
| Source: | Molecules, Vol 26, Iss 19, p 5917 (2021) |
| Publisher Information: | MDPI AG, 2021. |
| Publication Year: | 2021 |
| Collection: | LCC:Organic chemistry |
| Subject Terms: | electrospinning, ALD, TiO2, amorphous, nanotube, photocatalysis, Organic chemistry, QD241-441 |
| More Details: | In this work core/shell composite polymer/TiO2 nanofibers and from those TiO2 nanotubes were prepared. First, poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and poly(vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP) fibers were synthetized by electrospinning. They were covered with a 100 nm thick amorphous TiO2 layer by atomic layer deposition at 50 °C. Later the polymer core was removed by two different methods: dissolution and annealing. In the case of dissolution in water, the as-prepared TiO2 nanotubes remained amorphous, while when annealing was used to remove the polymers, the TiO2 crystallized in anatase form. Due to this, the properties of amorphous and crystalline TiO2 nanotubes with exactly the same structure and morphology could be compared. The samples were investigated by SEM-EDX, ATR-IR, UV-Vis, XRD and TG/DTA-MS. Finally, the photocatalytic properties of the TiO2 nanotubes were studied by decomposing methyl-orange dye under UV light. According to the results, crystalline anatase TiO2 nanotubes reached the photocatalytic performance of P25, while amorphous TiO2 nanotubes had observable photocatalytic activity. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 26195917 1420-3049 |
| Relation: | https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/26/19/5917; https://doaj.org/toc/1420-3049 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/molecules26195917 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/75d74606612c40788d1b4928e38fcb44 |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.75d74606612c40788d1b4928e38fcb44 |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| ISSN: | 26195917 14203049 |
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| DOI: | 10.3390/molecules26195917 |
| Published in: | Molecules |
| Language: | English |