磁性可分离的TiO2纳米管的制备、表征及可见光催化性能化学工程专业论文.docx

γ-Fe2O3/TiO2 nanotubes catalyst was firstly prepared by an impregnation iron pentacarbonyl Fe(CO)5, vacuum thermolysis and oxidation method. The characterizations revealed that iron oxide nanoparticles were decorated in/around nitrogen-doped TiO2 nanotubes, and most of the nanotubes keep their crystalline phase and crystal structure, in addition, the concentration of Fe is 1.4% and firmly supports the formation of γ-Fe2O3. Magnetically separable γ-Fe2O3/N-TiO2 nanotubes catalyst was synthesized for the first time by a soft and wet chemical process. The UV/Vis DRS showed that the prepared photocatalysis exhibits stronger absorbance in visible area at 400 to 600 nm wavelength. The photocatalytic activities of the different samples were investigated by detecting the decomposition MO solutions under visible light irradiation. The results show that the order of samples’ photocatalytic activities is as follows: γ-Fe2O3/ N-TiO2 NTs N-doped TiO2 NTs TiO2 NTs P25, indicating the existence of a synergistic effect of nitrogen codoping and iron oxide coupling, which leads to production of new states, effectively narrowing the band gap between the valence band and conduction band. Additionally, the iron oxide with changing valencies in the N-doped TiO2 NTs samples could act as trapping sites, which would effectively decrease the recombination rate of photo-induced electrons and holes and then increase the photo-oxidation efficiency of the catalysts. The room temperature (300 K) magnetic hysteresis curves of the magnetically separable catalyst samples indicates its ferromagnetic property with the saturation magnetization (Ms) of 12.52 emu g?1. This value is sufficiently high for effective magnetic separation of photocatalyst. The hybrids recycled by external magnetic field using many times showed that the photocatalytic efficiency was almost same as that of the first time. This conclusion will help to design more effective magnetically separable visible-light photocatalyst. K