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Title
Effects of copper and vanadium deposition in multi-walled hydrogen trititanate and mixed-phase anatase/trititanate nanotubes
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Abstract
Metal incorporation and doping is one of the routes commonly explored to improve visible light photocatalytic activity of titania and related materials. In this work, we explore the effect of copper and vanadium deposition and incorporation in multi-walled hydrogen trititanate and mixed-phase anatase/trititanate nanotubes. The molecular designed dispersion method is used to introduce the metals in the materials. Electron paramagnetic resonance facilitates a full characterization of the metal sites before and after calcination and allows determining the UV- and visible-light-induced formation of paramagnetic intermediates. Vanadium or copper deposition on the tubes leads to increased formation of F+ centres under visible or UV illumination. The EPR results are linked to the activity towards rhodamine 6G photobleaching of the different materials.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Dalton Transactions : an international journal of inorganic chemistry / Royal Society of Chemistry [London] - Cambridge, 2003, currens
Journal of the Chemical Society : Dalton transactions. - London, 1972 - 1999
Publication
Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry , 2013
ISSN
1477-9226 [print]
1477-9234 [online]
DOI
10.1039/C3DT00061C
Volume/pages
42 :34 (2013) , p. 12148-12156
ISI
000322780000013
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UAntwerpen
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Last edited 09.10.2023
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