Enhanced photocatalytic efficacy of hetropolyacid pillared TiO2 nanocomposites.

Enhanced photocatalytic efficacy of hetropolyacid pillared TiO2 nanocomposites.

Journal of nanoscience and nanotechnology (2014-04-18)

R Nivea, V Gunasekaran, R Kannan, T Sakthivel, K Govindan

ABSTRACT

The removal of dye from industrial effluents is prime important, photo-catalysis is a finest method to combat dye from effluents. This study concerns about the investigation of photocatalytic activity of TiO2-HPAs (Hetropolyacids) nanocomposite namely TiO2-Phosphomolybdic nanocomposite [TiO2-HMA] and TiO2-Phosphotungstic nanocomposite [TiO2-HWA] which were prepared by Sol-gel method and the same were characterized by using XRD, SEM-EDAX. The photocatalytic activity of prepared photo-catalysts were evaluated and compared by the degradation of Methylene Blue dye in water solution under UV irradiation. In that TiO2-HMA nanocomposite showed superior photocatalytic activity than TiO2-HWA.

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