%0 Journal Article
%T RareEarthOxide-TreatedFullereneandTitaniaCompositeswithEnhancedPhotocatalyticActivityfortheDegradationofMethyleneBlue
%A MENG Zada
%A ZHU Lei
%A CHOI Jong-geun
%A PARK Chong-yeon
%A OH Won-chun
%J ´ß»¯Ñ§±¨
%P 1457-1464
%D 2011
%R 10.1016/S1872-2067(10)60258-6
%X £¿Rareearthoxide-treatedfullereneandtitaniacomposites(Y-fullerene/TiO2)werepreparedbythesol-gelmethod.Theproductshadinterestingsurfacecompositions.X-raydiffractionpatternsofthecompositesshowedthattheY-fullerene/TiO2compositescontainedasingleandclearanatasephase.Thesurfacepropertieswereobservedbyscanningelectronmicroscopy,whichgaveacharacterizationofthetextureontheY-fullerene/TiO2compositesandshowedahomogenousdistributionoftitaniumparticles.Theenergy-dispersiveX-rayspectrashowedthepresenceofCandTiwithstrongYpeaks.ThecompositeobtainedwasalsocharacterizedwithtransmissionelectronmicroscopyandUV-Visspectroscopy.ThephotocatalyticresultsshowedthattheY-fullerene/TiO2compositeshadexcellentactivityforthedegradationofmethyleneblueundervisiblelightirradiation.ThiswasattributedtoboththeeffectsonthephotocatalysisofthesupportedTiO2bychargetransferbythefullerene,andtheintroductionofyttriumtoenhancephoto-generatedelectrontransfer.
%K fullerene
%K yttrium
%K titania
%K visiblelight
%K methyleneblue
%U http://www.chxb.cn/CN/abstract/abstract20499.shtml