Synthesis of hierarchical rose bridal bouquet- and humming-top-like TiO2 nanostructures and their shape-dependent degradation efficiency of dye

Thuy Duong Nguyen-Phan, Eui Jung Kim, Sung Hong Hahn, Woo Jae Kim, Eun Woo Shin

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Abstract

Novel hierarchical rose bridal bouquet- and humming-top-like nanostructured TiO2 were successfully prepared by the simple process with the hydrothermal temperature as the morphology-controlling factor. The gradual transformation from layered titanate to brookite phase was well consistent with the formation mechanism of the hierarchical morphologies. The three-dimensional flower bouquets built from the bunches of roses with surrounding fern fronds displayed the best adsorptivity and completely degraded methylene blue within 60min under UV irradiation, whereas the humming-top geometry composed of anisotropically elongated spindle-like crystallites was detrimental to the dye photodegradation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)138-144
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Colloid and Interface Science
Volume356
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Apr 2011

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (No. 2010-0008810).

Keywords

  • Dye
  • Hierarchical
  • Nanostructure
  • Photocatalyst
  • TiO

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