Low-Temperature Synthesis of Nanometer-Sized Crystalline TiO2 Particles and Their Photoinduced Decomposition of Formic Acid.
Anatase TiO2 particles with an average size of 2.7 nm in an as-grown state were obtained below 373 K from an H2O-EtOH mixed solution of TiOSO4 by a facile liquid phase method. The volume ratio of H2O to EtOH was revealed to be the key for crystallinity of the particles. The as-grown particles prepared from the H2O-EtOH solution (H2O/EtOH (mL/mL) = 150/100) showed a high photoreactivity in the TiO2 photoinduced decarboxylation of HCOOH under a deaerated condition. In contrast, under an aerated condition, the rate of the reaction increased with an increase in calcining temperature (Tc) due to the improvement of anatase crystallinity, going through a maximum at Tc = 873 K. Copyright 1999 Academic Press.
Ito
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Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kinki University, 3-4-1, Kowakae, Higashi-Osaka, Osaka, 577-8502, Japan
Inoue
S
Kawada
H
Hara
M
Iwasaki
M
Tada
H