Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10243117 Catalysis Communications 2005 6 Pages PDF
Abstract
Nanocrystalline mesoporous titania was synthesized via a combined sol-gel process with surfactant-assisted templating route and evaluated for photocatalytic activity of hydrogen evolution from an aqueous methanol solution. In this proposed method, applied surfactant template molecules advantageously behaved as both mesopore-forming and gel formation-assisting agent. The activity of the mesoporous titania thermally treated under appropriate conditions, i.e., at calcination temperature of 600 °C for 4 h, was considerably higher than that of commercial titania powders, Ishihara ST-01 and Degussa P-25. It is clearly revealed that introducing mesoporous framework into TiO2 by this synthetic system provided much better photocatalytic performance.
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