The photocatalytic property of nitrogen-doped TiOnanoball film

Abstract

TiOnanoball films of nitrogen doping and no doping were prepared by anodic oxidation method. The nitrogen-doped samples exhibited significant enhanced absorption in visible light range, narrowing band gap from 3.2 eV to 2.8 eV and the smaller nanoball diameter size. The concentrations of methyl blue reduce to nearly 44% after 4-hour photodecomposition test by nitrogen-doped sample. It is indicated that there may be two main reasons for the enhanced photocatalytic activity: the increase of O vacancy and photocatalytic reactivity surface area in nitrogen-doped samples. © 2013 Haiying Wang and Yanchun Hu.