synthesis and bactericidal ability of tio2 and ag-tio2 prepared by coprecipitation method二氧化钛的合成和杀菌能力并通过共沉淀法ag-tio2准备.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Photoenergy Volume 2012, Article ID 640487, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2012/640487 Research Article Synthesis and Bactericidal Ability of TiO2 and Ag-TiO2 Prepared by Coprecipitation Method Robert Liu,1 H. S. Wu,1 Ruth Yeh,1 C. Y. Lee,1 and Yungtse Hung2 1 Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Minghsin University of Science and Technology, Hsinchu 30401, Taiwan 2 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115-2214, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Ruth Yeh, yehyl@.tw Received 23 March 2012; Accepted 5 May 2012 Academic Editor: Meenakshisundaram Swaminathan Copyright © 2012 Robert Liu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Preparation of photocatalysts of TiO2 and Ag-TiO2 was carried out by coprecipitation method. The prepared photocatalysts were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), SEM, EDX, and XRF analysis. The disinfection of E. coli, a model indicator organism for the safe water supply, was investigated by using TiO2 and Ag-TiO2 under different light sources. The treatment efficacy for the inactivation of E. coli would be UV/Ag-TiO ; visible/Ag-TiO ; dark/Ag-TiO ; UV (all 100%) UV/TiO (99%) visible/TiO 2 2 2 2 2 (96%) dark/TiO2 (87%) visible (23%) dark (19%). The order of disinfection efficiency by their corresponding kinetic initial apparent rate constants, k , (min−1) would be UV/Ag-TiO ; visible/Ag-TiO