Facile preparation of nitrogen-doped nanostructured titania microspheres by a new method of Thermally Assisted Reactions in Aqueous Spraysстатья
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Аннотация:N-doped titania nanocrystalline microspheres with controlled visible light absorption were obtained via a new promising preparation method. TiO2 was obtained utilizing a heterogeneous hydrolysis of TiCl4 vapour with water or reactive aqueous solution aerosol droplets, followed by immediate calcination of hydrolysis products in a preheated flow reactor. Thus prepared none-agglomerated microspheres with the diameter within 0.5 – 3 microns were found to consist of anatase or rutile nanocrystalls, depending on parameters of the synthesis. Doped titania samples with a different content of nitrogen atoms were synthesized using water solutions with various concentration of urea in hydrolyzing aerosols. N- species were found to be a major form of nitrogen impurity. A plausible mechanism of the nitrogen incorporation into the titanium dioxide was proposed. The photocatalytic activity of the obtained powders under uv-visible or visible illumination was found to have a complex dependence of the calcination temperature and their doping level.