Metal Titanate (ATiO<sub>3</sub>, A: Ni, Co, Mg, Zn) Nanorods for Toluene Photooxidation under LED Illumination

The increasing air pollution taking place in virtue of human activity has a novel impact in our health. Heterogeneous photocatalysis is a promising way of degrading volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that makes the quest of new and improved photocatalysts of great importance. Herein, perovskite-relat...

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Autores principales: Anna P. Souri, Natalia Andrigiannaki, Marilena Moschogiannaki, Vasiliki Faka, George Kiriakidis, Anna Malankowska, Adriana Zaleska-Medynska, Vassilios Binas
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Sumario:The increasing air pollution taking place in virtue of human activity has a novel impact in our health. Heterogeneous photocatalysis is a promising way of degrading volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that makes the quest of new and improved photocatalysts of great importance. Herein, perovskite-related materials ATiO<sub>3</sub> with A = Mg, Ni, Co, Zn were synthesized through an ethylene glycol-mediated root, with ethylene glycol being used as a solvent and ligand. Characterization techniques such as X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy, and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM/EDX), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), UV-vis spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), and photoluminescence spectroscopy (PL) were used in order to confirm the structure, the nanorod morphology, their absorption in UV-vis, and the separation efficiency of photogenerated charge carriers. The highest photoactivity was observed for ZnTiO<sub>3</sub> in which 62% of toluene was decomposed after 60 min under LED illumination (54 mW/cm<sup>2</sup>).