Effect of method of synthesis and different metal doping ：效果的合成方法和不同金属掺杂.pptVIP

Effect of method of synthesis and different metal doping on the photocatalytic activity of titania Department of Chemistry Anna University Chennai  In the year 1972, Fujishima and Honda discovered the photocatalytic splitting of water on titania semiconductor electrode. Later on Sato and White decomposed water on platinum loaded TiO2 powder. After that researchers concentrated towards the usage of semiconductor photocatalysis for environmental protection. Photocatalysis has been exploited for various environmental process such as deodorization, water purification, air purification, sterilization and soil proof. Many researchers have put their effort on degradation and mineralization of variety of toxic substances by photocatalytic oxidation. Carbon dioxide has been reduced efficiently with water by photocatalysis. Different types of semiconductors were used as photocatalyst. Among these titania is the widely used photocatalyst due to its strong oxidizing power, stable at different pH and favorable band gap energy. Photocatalysts and their band gap energy Even though titania is the widely used semiconductor, it has some disadvantage like low surface area, fast recombination and wavelength maximum lies in UV region. Commercial titania P-25 has average particle size of 40-50nm. Since larger particles increases the specific surface area of the catalyst, reduction of particle size become essential. Recombination are of two types (i) surface recombination (ii) volume recombination. Surface recombination can be avoided by doping some foreign material like metal, non-metals and coupling titania with another semiconductor. Volume recombination can be reduced by preparing titania in nanoscale. Wavelength of maximum can also increased to higher wavelength by doping metals or non-metals. It is well known that wavelength and surface area are mainly depend on particle size. Altering the size of the particle alters the degree of confinement of the electrons, an