Photocatalytic properties of Ta-doped TiO2

Mohammad A. Alim, Tadeusz Bak, Armand J. Atanacio, Mihail Ionescu, Brendan Kennedy, William S. Price, Johan Du Plessis, Maryam Pourmahdavi, Meifang Zhou, Allan Torres, Janusz Nowotny

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Abstract

This work reports the effect of tantalum (0.1–1 at.% Ta) on the photocatalytic performance of TiO2 annealed at 1373 and 1673 K in air. It was shown that addition of tantalum resulted in an increase of photocatalytic activity of TiO2 for the specimens annealed at 1373 K. However, the activity of the Ta-doped TiO2 specimens annealed at 1673 K was reduced. The effect of tantalum on the photocatalytic performance at 1373 K was rationalised in terms of an increased concentration of titanium vacancies acting as the active surface sites, and increased charge transport. In this work, it was also shown that the band gap reduction due to tantalum incorporation had little effect on photocatalytic performance. The effect of annealing at 1673 K on photocatalytic activity was explained in terms of reduced surface segregation of tantalum.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3517-3531
Number of pages15
JournalIonics
Volume23
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Keywords

  • oxidation
  • photocatalysis
  • titanium dioxide
  • water

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