Preparation and photocatalytic properties of sillenite Bi12TiO20 films

✍ Scribed by Haiping Zhang; Mengkai Lü; Suwen Liu; Zhiliang Xiu; Guangjun Zhou; Yuanyuan Zhou; Zifeng Qiu; Aiyu Zhang; Qian Ma

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 913 KB
• Volume: 202
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0257-8972
• DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2008.04.081

✦ Synopsis

Sillenite Bi 12 TiO 20 thin films with high photocatalytic activity have been successfully fabricated by means of chemical solution decomposition, and characterized by X-ray diffraction, energy-dispersive spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and UV-Vis spectrophotometry. The photocatalytic activity of Bi 12 TiO 20 thin films has been evaluated by photodegrading methyl orange solution and the effect of processing conditions on the photocatalytic activity has been studied in detail.