Open AccessFacile Hydrothermal Preparation of Flower-Like Tio2 Nanostructure With Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity
Author(s) -
Kamol Dey
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
applied chemical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2578-2010
DOI - 10.24294/ace.v0i0.1095
Subject(s) - photocatalysis , crystallinity , nanostructure , hydrothermal circulation , materials science , scanning electron microscope , rhodamine b , nanoparticle , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , adsorption , chemistry , composite material , catalysis , organic chemistry , engineering
This paper demonstrated the preparation of flower-like TiO2 nanostructures by low temperature hydrothermal process from TiO2 nanoparticles. The as-synthesized TiO2 nanoparticles and flower-like TiO2 nanostructures were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and N2 adsorption-desorption measurements. The flower-like TiO2 nanostructures possessed good crystallinity, showed fairly large surface area of 220 m2/g and exhibited better photocatalytic degradation of rhodamine B than TiO2 nanoparticles under simulated solar radiation.