dc.contributor.author | ZHANG, HONGZHOU | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-04-02T08:50:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-04-02T08:50:59Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | en |
dc.date.submitted | 2011 | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Tao, T, Glushenkov, AM, Chen, QY, Hu, HP, Zhou, D, Zhang, HZ, Boese, M, Liu, S, Amal, R, Chen, Y, Porous TiO2 with a controllable bimodal pore size distribution from natural ilmenite, CrystEngComm, 13, 5, 2011, 1322-1327 | en |
dc.identifier.other | Y | en |
dc.description | PUBLISHED | en |
dc.description.abstract | Ilmenite (FeTiO3) is an inexpensive abundant natural mineral and it would be a perfect precursor for the production of porous TiO2 if a suitable synthesis method was developed. A new method combining a series of processing steps of ball milling, high-temperature annealing, selective chemical leaching and final calcining in air is proposed in this paper. The resulting TiO2 is a porous material with a bimodal pore structure. The pore size distribution has two clear maxima corresponding to small mesopores (2?30 nm) and large meso- and macropores (centered at around 50?80 nm). It was found that the duration of the annealing step could alter the contribution of each type of pores. A short annealing time (0.5 h) lead to the preferential formation of pores within 2?30 nm while pores centered at 50?80 nm dominated the pore size distribution after a relatively long annealing (1.5 h). The obtained porous rutile TiO2 shows a better photocatalytic activity than that of a commercial rutile TiO2 powder. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Financial support from the Australian Research Council is
acknowledged. Mr Tao Tao thanks the National Basic Research
Program of China (No: 2007CB613601) and the China
Scholarship Council (CSC) for providing his scholarship. The
work conducted in Trinity College Dublin is supported by the
Irish Government?s Programme for Research in Third Level
Institutions, Cycle 4, National Development Plan 2007?2013
within the framework of the INSPIRE programme and Science
Foundation Ireland under Grant 07/SK/I1220a. | en |
dc.format.extent | 1322-1327 | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | CrystEngComm | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 13 | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 5 | en |
dc.rights | Y | en |
dc.subject | Physical chemistry | en |
dc.subject | Ilmenite (FeTiO3) | en |
dc.title | Porous TiO2 with a controllable bimodal pore size distribution from natural ilmenite | en |
dc.type | Journal Article | en |
dc.type.supercollection | scholarly_publications | en |
dc.type.supercollection | refereed_publications | en |
dc.identifier.peoplefinderurl | http://people.tcd.ie/hozhang | en |
dc.identifier.rssinternalid | 75281 | en |
dc.subject.TCDTheme | Nanoscience & Materials | en |
dc.identifier.rssuri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C0CE00533A | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) | en |
dc.contributor.sponsorGrantNumber | 07/SK/I1220a | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/62899 | |