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P-TiO2可见光光催化剂的制备及其在SiO2质多孔材料上的负载

Synthesis and Visible-light Photocatalytic Activities of P-doped TiO2 and Its Loading on Various SiO2 Porous Supports

【作者】 李芳菲

【导师】 蒋引珊;

【作者基本信息】 吉林大学 , 材料学, 2009, 博士

【摘要】 为了扩展TiO2的光响应范围、抑制TiO2由锐钛矿型向金红石型的转变,本文以磷酸为P源,使用溶胶-凝胶法在TiO2中掺杂了非金属性很强的单一价态元素P。并考察了P的掺杂浓度、焙烧温度以及醋酸水解抑制剂对P-TiO2结构及可见光催化活性的影响。根据掺杂浓度的不同,P在TiO2中有两种存在状态,本文分别将其命名为“分散状态”和“富集状态”。研究表明,只有P掺杂量相对较低的“分散状态”具有可见光活性。减少P的总掺杂量、加入醋酸水解抑制剂、使TiO2的水解过程与P的掺杂过程同时开始,这些方法都可以显著提高P-TiO2的可见光催化活性。为了制备具有不同孔道结构和孔壁结晶程度的多孔SiO2载体材料,本文向介孔分子筛的合成体系中,加入不同结构的天然SiO2矿物作为孔壁材料,绕过了复杂而困难的孔壁晶化合成过程,在较温和的条件下制备出多种大比表面积矿物复合型多孔SiO2材料。其中,介孔硅藻土和介孔蒙脱石都表现出十分优异的水热稳定性,在120℃水热反应数日后依然保持介孔结构和超大比表面积。负载过程中,P-TiO2与多孔SiO2载体在界面处发生相互作用,从而抑制了P-TiO2的晶粒生长,并削弱了其体相Ti-O键红外振动。当SiO2多孔载体自身的λg大于P-TiO2时,复合后的光催化剂可见光活性显著下降。而使用孔壁结晶程度较高的SiO2多孔载体,有助于提高P-TiO2在紫外光下的催化活性。

【Abstract】 TiO2 photocatalytic degradation (PCD) method is one of the most promising methods in waste treatment, due to their high PCD rate of various organic compounds. However, the well-known highly photo-reactive anatase TiO2 responds only under UV-light irradiation. In order to make better use of solar energy, many attempts have been made to sensitize TiO2 into visible-light region. Since Asahi et al. (2001) first reported the visible-light photocatalytic activity of N-doped TiO2, many researches have been carried out in order to dope TiO2 with inorganic elements. It has been found that, comparing with other inorganic elements, phosphorus can significantly increase the specific surface area of TiO2 and prevent the anatase-to-rutile phase transformation, resulting in the enhancement of photocatalytic activity of TiO2. However, the mechanism of P doping has been subjected to a considerably smaller number of studies.Considering the difficulties in recycling process of fine powders, TiO2 must be fixed on inert and ideal supports in order to be further used in large scale. Among various host materials, the porous silicates seem attractive candidates due to their high surface areas and chemical stabilities. Previous works have found that even the photo-inert porous SiO2 supports also improved the photocatalytic activities of loaded TiO2 to some extent, and the reasons for such enhancement are still not clear. Moreover, most of the researches only focus on a single type of SiO2 support. While studies on the effects of porous structures, specific areas, wall components, and crystalline degrees of various SiO2 supports on the photocatalytic activities of the loaded photocatalysts are very rear.In this article, by employing H3PO4 and Ti(OC4H9)4, P-doped TiO2 nanoparticles with various phosphorus contents were synthesized by sol-gel method. The samples were calcinated at different temperatures and charactered by XRD, FTIR, Raman, UV-vis, XPS, and ICP methods, so that the effects of doping amount and the calcination temperatures on the crystalline structures, the crystal sizes, the specific areas, the bonding conditions, the dispersion of P, the adsorption edges, and the visible-light photocatalytic activities could be inspected. The results show that P species hinders the particle growth of anatase leading to remarkable increase of anatase-to-rutile phase transformation temperature. When the P content is very low, P species introduces oxygen into TiO2 lattice and hence causes red shift of adsorption band edge of anatase, leading to the increased visible-light photocatalytic activity of P-doped TiO2. While when the P content is very high, P species acts as the interface phase between TiO2 clusters and strongly retards the crystal growth of anatase, resulting in the widened band gap of P-doped TiO2. When calcined over 900 oC, a new titanyl phosphate, Ti5O4(PO4)4, was observed in P-doped TiO2. One the basic of the above phenomena, a possible mechanism is also proposed to explain the formation of the two phases during the sol-gel process. In P-doped TiO2, P species is likely to have two different states. One state is named as“separated state”, whose P content is very low so that the P species is surrounded by TiO2. The other state is named as“congregated state”, whose P:Ti ratio is high enough to make the TiO2 clusters isolated by P species. Both of the two phases hinder the crystal growth of anatase. But only the“separated state”shows visible-light photocatalytic activities and causes red-shift ofλg.In order to prevent the hydrolyzation speed of Ti(OC4H9)4, acetic acid was employed in the sol-gel process of P-doped TiO2. The amount effects of acetic acid on the structures and visible-light photocatalytic activities of P-doped TiO2 are examined carefully. Moreover, on the basic of our proposed doping mechanism of P species in TiO2, reasons for the enhancement of visible-light photocatalytic activity caused by acetic acid were also deduced. The experimental results show that the addition of acetic acid leads to the lattice expansion, the increased crystal size, and slight decrease of anatase-to-rutile phase transformation temperature. It suggests that acetic acid improves the formation of“separated state”of P species in P-doped TiO2, resulting in the red-shift ofλg and the decay of“congregated state”. With the help of acetic acid, P-doped TiO2 could achieve very high visible-light photocatalytic activities under relatively low calcination temperatures.Natural SiO2 minerals with perfect crystalline structures, such as quartz and montmorillonite, were employed as the pore-wall materials for the mesopores, in order to get various mesoporous SiO2 supports with different crystalline degrees. Thus, the complicated crystallization process of mesoporous SiO2 walls could be omitted. And mesoporous SiO2 supports with various crystalline degrees could be easily synthesized by the similar synthetic method of MCM-41. The resultant compound mesoporous minerals were charactered by low-angle XRD, FTIR, TEM, and N2 adsorption/desorption isotherms, in order to check the porous structure, surface morphology, and hydrothermal stabilities of the samples. The compound mesoporous quartz exhibits mesoporous structure and its specific area is up to 600 m2/g or so. Although the vibrations of Si-O bonds vary after synthesis, the hydrothermal stabilities of mesoporous quartz are still no better than common MCM-41. Comparing with mesoporous quartz, the mesoporous montmorillonite displays high specific surface areas and extraordinary hydrothermal stabilities. Three types of silica resources, TEOS, Na2SiO3, and nano-scaled white silica, were employed during synthesis in order to reveal the effects of the type of silica resource on the specific surface areas and hydrothermal stabilities of mesoporous montmorillonite. In the best conditions, the specific surface areas of resultant mesoporous montmorillonite is up to 770 m2/g, and it keeps at 580 m2/g or so even after boiled for 10 days. In addition, natural macroporous diatomite is combined with mesoporous silica, resulting in a macro- and meso-porous hierarchical structure. The resultant mesoporous diatomite is composed of amorphous SiO2, and its specific surface area is up to 8601040 m2/g which is similar to the specific surface area of ordinary MCM-41. Moreover, these mesoporous diatomites display superior hydrothermal stabilities than ordinary MCM-41.Ten types of porous SiO2 are employed as the supports of P-doped TiO2, such as mesoporous quartz, mesoporous diatomite, mesoporous montmorillonite, MCM-41, SBA-15, dry gel of SiO2, wet gel of SiO2, montmorillonite, mordenite zeolite, and diatomite. These SiO2 supports have various specific areas, porous structures, and crystalline degrees. During synthesis, the resultant SiO2 supports are immersed in the sol of P-doped TiO2 for loading, and the ratio between P-doped TiO2 and compound photocatalyst is 25 wt%. The compound photocatalysts were charactered by XRD, FTIR, Raman, and UV-vis spectra. The results suggest that the porous structures of various SiO2 supports are remained after loading of P-doped TiO2, and both of the particle sizes and the crystal growth of anatase are strongly restricted by porous SiO2 supports. Comparing with unloaded P-doped TiO2, the Ti-O vibrations of anatase in compound photocatalysts reduce sharply, and only PT-MCM displays Ti-O-Si vibration at 960 cm-1. All of the compound photocatalysts show superior visible-light photocatalytic activities when the calcination temperature is around 500 600 oC. And PT-S displays the best photocatalytic activity, indicating the advantage of wet gel material. The specific areas, the surface charges, the porous structures, and the crystalline degrees of the pore walls show remarkable effects on the crystal sizes and photocatalytic activities of loaded P-doped TiO2. If theλg of porous SiO2 support is larger than P-doped TiO2, the visible-light photocatalytic activity of resultant compound photocatalysts would drop sharply. Moreover, high crystalline degree of porous SiO2 support benefits the UV-light photocatalytic activity of P-doped TiO2.

  • 【网络出版投稿人】 吉林大学
  • 【网络出版年期】2010年 07期
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