"

Cookies ussage consent

Our site saves small pieces of text information (cookies) on your device in order to deliver better content and for statistical purposes. You can disable the usage of cookies by changing the settings of your browser. By browsing our site without changing the browser settings you grant us permission to store that information on your device.

Improved photocatalytic activity of La 2 Ti 2 O 7 on azophloxine degradation: the effects of PEG2000

LILI YANG1, ZHENG MA1, WENJIE ZHANG1,*

Affiliation

  1. School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shenyang Ligong University, Shenyang 110159, China

Abstract

Porous lanthanum titanate was synthesized through a sol gel route using PEG2000. The addition of PEG2000 inhibits perovskite La2Ti2O7 crystal growth, and crystallite size of La2Ti2O7 decreases with increasing PEG2000. BET surface area of the samples increases from 15.3 m 2 /g of the nonporous sample to 52.4 m 2 /g of the sample obtained with 3 g of PEG2000. FTIR and FT Far IR spectra of La2T2O7 samples show the effects of PEG2000 on the functional groups in the materials. The reaction rate constant is 0.0032 min 1 for the La2Ti2O7 sample prepared without PEG2000, while the reaction rate constants are promoted to 0.0135 and 0.0191 min 1 when 1 and 3 g of PEG2000 are used to prepare the porous La2Ti2O7. The enhanced photocatalytic activity of the porous La2Ti2O7 can be attributed to the increasing porosity and decreasing crystallite size..

Keywords

Lanthanum titanate, Photocatalytic, Azophloxine, Degradation, PEG2000.

Citation

LILI YANG, ZHENG MA, WENJIE ZHANG, Improved photocatalytic activity of La 2 Ti 2 O 7 on azophloxine degradation: the effects of PEG2000, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 13, 7-8, July-August 2019, pp.482-486 (2019).

Submitted at: Nov. 11, 2018

Accepted at: Aug. 20, 2019