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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 138-144 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Journal of Colloid and Interface Science |
Volume | 356 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 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