Enhancing Photocatalytic Properties of TiO2 Photocatalyst and Heterojunctions: A Comprehensive Review of the Impact of Biphasic Systems in Aerogels and Xerogels Synthesis, Methods, and Mechanisms for Environmental Applications [PDF]
Gels, 2023 This review provides a detailed exploration of titanium dioxide (TiO2) photocatalysts, emphasizing structural phases, heterophase junctions, and their impact on efficiency.
Lizeth Katherine Tinoco Navarro +1 more
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Successful Growth of TiO2 Nanocrystals with {001} Facets for Solar Cells [PDF]
Nanomaterials, 2023 The growth of nanocrystals (NCs) from metal oxide-based substrates with exposed high-energy facets is of particular importance for many important applications, such as solar cells as photoanodes due to the high reactivity of these facets.
Saif M. H. Qaid +5 more
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Structure and Photocatalytic Properties of Ni-, Co-, Cu-, and Fe-Doped TiO2 Aerogels [PDF]
Gels, 2023 TiO2 aerogels doped with Ni, Co, Cu, and Fe were prepared, and their structure and photocatalytic activity during the decomposition of a model pollutant, acid orange (AO7), were studied.
Tinoco Navarro Lizeth Katherine +3 more
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Low-Temperature Processed Brookite Interfacial Modification for Perovskite Solar Cells with Improved Performance [PDF]
Nanomaterials, 2022 The scaffold layer plays an important role in transporting electrons and preventing carrier recombination in mesoporous perovskite solar cells (PSCs), so the engineering of the interface between the scaffold layer and the light absorption layer has ...
Jiandong Yang +6 more
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TiO2 Nanoparticles with Adjustable Phase Composition Prepared by an Inverse Microemulsion Method: Physicochemical Characterization and Photocatalytic Properties [PDF]
NanomaterialsTitania nanoparticles (NPs) find wide application in photocatalysis, photovoltaics, gas sensing, lithium batteries, etc. One of the most important synthetic challenges is maintaining control over the polymorph composition of the prepared nanomaterial. In
Bogna D. Napruszewska +7 more
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Heterophase Polymorph of TiO2 (Anatase, Rutile, Brookite, TiO2 (B)) for Efficient Photocatalyst: Fabrication and Activity [PDF]
Nanomaterials, 2023 TiO2 exists naturally in three crystalline forms: Anatase, rutile, brookite, and TiO2 (B). These polymorphs exhibit different properties and consequently different photocatalytic performances.
Diana Rakhmawaty Eddy +8 more
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3D Self‐Supported Visible Light Photochemical Nanocatalysts [PDF]
Advanced ScienceThis work focuses on 3D, self‐supported, nanofibrous TiO2 structures (nanogrids) prepared using blend electrospinning. The presence of anatase and brookite phases in Cu‐doped TiO2 nanogrids significantly enhances the photocatalytic properties of the ...
Fateh Mikaeili +2 more
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Tunable structure of TiO2 deposited by DC magnetron sputtering to adsorb Cr (VI) and Fe (III) from water [PDF]
HeliyonTiO2 thin films with mixtures of the anatase, rutile, and brookite phases were deposited on glass substrates via magnetron sputtering. Based on XRD and Raman results, the TiO2-0.47 and TiO2-3.47 films principally contained the brookite phase, while the ...
F.A. Hernández-Rodríguez +3 more
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Cerâmica, 2021 Titanium dioxide is a widely studied material with well-known applications for anatase and rutile phases. Moreover, brookite, another polymorph, which is more difficult to obtain, has caught scientific community interest, especially for photocatalysis ...
A. R. F. A. Teixeira +2 more
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Sodium doping in brookite TiO2 enhances its photocatalytic activity
Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 2022 We report in this work that sodium doping of brookite TiO2 effectively enhances its photocatalytic activity, which becomes three times higher than that of the quasi-spherical brookite TiO2.
Boxiang Zhuang +3 more
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