A sonochemical method was developed for the fabrication of novel square-shaped TiO2 nanocrystals doped with different F contents. The prepared samples were characterized by some physicochemical characterizations like X-ray diffraction (XRD), N2 physical adsorption, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Fourier transform infrared spectrum (FT-IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy and UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectra (DRS). Phenol, as a hazardous chemical in water, was chosen to evaluate the photocatalytic degradation performance of the prepared TiO2 nanocrystals under UV light irradiation. Results show that under ultrasonic irradiation conditions, F can easily be doped into TiO2 and the obtained pure and F doped TiO2 nanocrystals show mesoporous structures which were formed by the role of ultrasound-induced aggregation. Moreover, the doping of optimal content of F (1.3mol%) gives 5.3 times increase in the phenol degradation rate. The high photocatalytic degradation activity of the doped TiO2 could be attributed to the factor that F doping increases the surface hydroxyl groups over TiO2 and effectively reduces the recombination rate of photo-generated electron/hole pairs, then producing more OH radicals to decompose the phenol molecules. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.
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Yu, C., Fan, Q., Xie, Y., Chen, J., shu, Q., & Yu, J. C. (2012). Sonochemical fabrication of novel square-shaped F doped TiO2 nanocrystals with enhanced performance in photocatalytic degradation of phenol. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 237–238, 38–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2012.07.072
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