The influence of changes in structural and physical properties on the photocatalytic activity of octahedral anatase particles (OAPs), exposing eight equivalent {101} facets, caused by calcination (2 h) in air or grinding (1 h) in an agate mortar was studied with samples prepared by ultrasonication (US; 1 h)-hydrothermal reaction (HT; 24 h, 433 K). Calcination in air at temperatures up to 1173 K...

In this work, two types of solvents ethanol or water were used in preparation of the LaFeO3 catalysts by citrate sol gel method. The obtained samples were subjected to various calcination temperatures in order to study the catalytic activity and stability for methanol electro-oxidation by XRD, cyclic voltammetry and chronoamperometry. The crystallinity of the LaFeO3 ph...

The interaction of vanadium oxide and niobium oxide with A1203 and TiO2 supports is examined with Raman spectroscopy. The Raman spectra of the supported metal oxides reveal that the strong interaction of the metal oxides with AI203 and TiO2 supports results in the formation of two-dimensional surface metal oxide overlayers. The surface vanadium oxide overlayers are unstable to high calcination ...

There is an increasing interest in the application of photocatalytic properties for disinfection of surfaces, air, and water. Titanium dioxide is widely used as a photocatalyst, and the addition of silver reportedly enhances its bactericidal action. However, the synergy of silver nanoparticles and TiO(2) is not well understood. The photocatalytic elimination of Bacillus atrophaeus was examined ...

Considering the increasing demand for titania nanoparticles with controlled quality for various applications, the present work reports the up-scalable synthesis of size-controlled titanium dioxide nanocrystals with a simple and convenient thermal treatment route. Titanium dioxide nanocrystals with tetragonal structure were synthesized directly from an aqueous solution containing titanium (IV) i...

A light-scattering sensor that incorporated zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles was developed and characterized in this study. Evenly distributed nanostructured ZnO materials were formed on the sensing elements through the calcination of zinc acetate-treated sensing elements in a high-temperature oven. There was a large change in the scattering properties of the nanostructured ZnO materials after ad...

The interaction of chromium oxide with Alz03, TiOz and SiO? supports is investigated with Raman spectroscopy. The influence of the nature of the oxide support, calcination temperature and chromium oxide loading upon the molecular state of the supported chromium oxide is determined. The Raman studies reveal that the oxide supports stabilize the chromium oxide as Cr(V1) in tetrahedral coordinatio...

znfe2o4 mixed spinel ferrite nanoparticles obtained through a citrate-nitrate combustion method. ignited products calcined at different temperatures in 600-900ºc range and effect of calcination treatment temperature investigated. final products characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd), fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (ftir), and field emission scanning electron microscopy (fesem). the a...

The influence of the vanadium load and calcination temperature on the structural characteristics of the V2O5/TiO2 system was studied by X-ray diffraction and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) techniques. Samples of the V2O5/TiO2 system were prepared by the sol–gel method under acid conditions and calcined at different temperatures. The rutile phase was found to predominate in pure TiO2 calcin...