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inorganic materials have attracted great attention becausethe presence of surface defects or trapping sites. Severalapproaches were explored to increase the photoefciency
of TiO2, being the modication of the particle morphologyand dimensionality one of the newest (Lai et al. ).During the last years one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures
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for large-scale reaction anfor the formation of TiO2other methods, such a(Adachi et al. ; Liu e(as water oxidation, oxygen reduction, etc). One of the maindrawbacks of TiO2 nanoparticles is the random pathway ofthe electrons during the photocatalytic reactions that mayINTRODUCTION
TiO2 nanomaterials are well-studied and commonly usedmaterials for liquid and gas-phase applications due to itshigh performance as photocatalysts for degradation of
organics, water splitting and solar cells, within others(Ollis et al. ; Cowan et al. ; Yan & Zhou ; Renet al. ). Under UV illumination, electrons from theTiO2 valence band jump to the conductive band leaving oxi-dant positive holes behind (Ibhadon & Fitzpatrick ). Theelectrons and holes diffuse to the surface of TiO2 particles,where they can participate in oxidative-reduction processes
they could offer larger suparticles (Yamin et al.nanotubes exhibit unique
for photocatalysis. Theenhanced light adsorptioneter, (ii) rapid and lo
capability, (iii) large speciability (Liu et al. ). Diin order to get TiO2-baassisted-template methoddoi: 10.2166/wst.2014.312e area in comparison to nano- Q). In the case of TiO2, theoperties that may be benecial
unique features include: (i)e to the high ratio length/diam-distance electron transport
surface area, (iv) ion exchangeQent routes have been developed
1D nanostructures such asu & Chi-Chung Q; Maiyala-P-25 can be associated with the lower crystallinity of 1D TiO2 in both materials.
Key words | hydrothermal treatment, 1D TiO2 nanostructures, photocatalytic activityHowever, the rod like nanostructures obtained from SG-TiO2 displayed slightly higher efciency than
the sol gel prepared powders. The lower photocatalytic activity of the nanostructures with respect toArgentina
Dwight AcostaSynthesis, characterization and photoca
of 1 D TiO2 nanostructures
Julieta Cabrera, Hugo Alarcn, Alcides Lpez, Rob
Dwight Acosta and Juan Rodriguez
ABSTRACT
Nanowire/nanorods TiO2 structures of approximately 8 nm in diame
were synthesized by alkaline hydrothermal treatment of two differe
precursor was TiO2 obtained by sol gel process (SG-TiO2); the secon
commercial TiO2 P-25 (P25-TiO2). Anatase like 1D TiO2 nanostructure
The 1D nanostructures synthesized from SG-TiO2 powders turned on
annealing at 400 WC during 2 hours. On the other hand the nanostruct
preserved the tubular structure after annealing, displaying higher Br
area than the rst system (279 and 97 m2/g respectively). Despite th
the 1D nanostructures, in both cases the photocatalytic activity waslytic activity
to Candal,
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Julieta CabreraHugo AlarcnAlcides LpezJuan Rodriguez (corresponding author)Universidad Nacional de Ingeniera,Lima, PerE-mail: [email protected]
Alcides LpezInstituto Peruano de Energa Nuclear,IPEN, Lima,Per
Roberto CandalINQUIMAE,Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales,
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ing suspension was heated at 70 WC for 2 h to peptize the
persion of TiO2 particles and adsorption of RhB on the
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it was auto-cleaved in a stainless steel chamber at 220 WC for12 h. After the hydrothermal treatment a transparent sol-ution and a white precipitate was obtained. The white
precipitated was washed and dried at 100 WC overnight ina dry oven.
The obtained nanostructures were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) in a Rigaku diffractometer using
CuK radiation ( 1.54056 ). The morphology wasstudied by Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy(FE-SEM SUPRA 40 Carl Zeiss) and High Resolution Trans-
mission Electron Microscopy (HRTEM, JEOL JEM-2010Fstructure of the TiO2 precursor changes completely. These
steps include acid wash and thermal treatment. The natureof the TiO2 use as precursor in the alkaline hydrothermalsynthesis affects the quality and properties of the nal pro-
duct (Liu et al. ). In this work, we report the synthesisof rod and tube-like TiO2 nanostructures by hydrothermalsynthesis using as precursors TiO2 nanopowders syn-thesized in our laboratory by solgel method and
commercial TiO2 P-25. Their photocatalytic efciency wascompared by means of the Rhodamine B (RhB) photocataly-tic degradation.
MATERIAL AND METHODS
All reagents were used as received without further puri-
cation. Titanium isopropoxide, NaOH and HCl werepurchased from Merck. Commercial TiO2 powder P25 wasobtained from Degussa.
Synthesis and characterization of TiO2 nanostructures
Nanotubes/nanorods were synthetized by hydrothermaltreatment of 1 g of TiO2 powder (commercial P25: P25-
TiO2, or solgel synthetized TiO2: SG-TiO2) in a 10 MNaOH solution at 130 WC for 18 and 24 h. After hydrother-mal treatment, the obtained white powder was vacuum-
ltered, washed with HCl solution for ionic exchange andthen washed with distilled water until a neutral pH wasreached. Finally, the samples were annealed at 400 WC for2 h to crystallize the material.
In the synthesis of nanoparticles from solgel method acolloidal solution was obtained adding slowly drops of tita-nium isopropoxide to a vigorous stirred concentrated
acidic solution (HCl 0.1 M) at room temperature. The result-transmission electron microscope [TEM] operating atcatalysts. 4 mL samples of the suspension were taken just
before illumination and after illumination at periods of 5or 15 minutes. The samples were centrifuged at10,000 rpm for 8 min using a 5804R Eppendorf Ultracentri-
fuge to separate the photocatalyst from the solution. Theconcentration of RhB in the solution was determined byUV-Vis spectroscopy. The evolution of the RhB concen-tration was determinate as a function of the irradiation
time from the change in absorbance at 564 nm. The ef-ciency of the nanotubes and nanorods was compared withtheir respective precursor TiO2 powders.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Figure 1 shows FE-SEM and TEM images of the SG-TiO2nanoparticles (NP). The images show that the NP displayeda radius of approximately 7 nm and formed relatively largeand compact aggregates. Figure 2 shows the morphology
and structure of the materials formed after 18 h of exposingthe SG-TiO2 powder to alkaline hydrothermal treatment.The images indicate that the NP turned to tube-like nanos-
tructures with an average inner and external diameter ofapproximately 5.6 and 8 nm respectively. After the hydro-thermal treatment the samples were acid treated toexchange Na by H. Figure 2(b) shows that the tubular
structure was conserved in spite of the acid treatment.Figure 2(c) shows the morphology and structure of thesamples after annealing at 400 WC. The images clearly
shows that as consequence of the annealing the tube like200 kV). TEM samples were prepared by dispersing a
small amount of the sample in ethanol with the help of anultrasonic bath. Small droplets of the freshly prepared dis-persion were placed onto a cupper grid covered with
carbon to improve the conduction of the electrons. Alsothe surface area was estimated by BrunauerEmmettTeller (BET) method in a Gemini VII 2390 instrument.
Measurement of photocatalytic activity
Photocatalytic efciency for degradation of RhB was carriedout under the radiation of 220 WOSRAM ultravitalux lamp,with a measured radiation Intensity of 60 W/m2 in the UV-A
range. An aqueous solution with initial volume of 150 mLwas prepared with an amount of 0.05 g of catalyst andRhB 10 ppm, the solution was sonicated rst for 30 min
and then stirred in the dark for 30 min to ensure a good dis-nanostructures turned into short rod-like particles. Most of
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collapsed, cutting the tubes in smaller pieces but preservingin part their original morphology. Longer hydrothermaltreatment was also performed, but not appreciable changesin morphology were detected. Figure 2(d) shows examples
of tubular TiO2 nanostructures obtained after 24 h oftreatment.
Figure 3 shows TEM images of TiO2 nanostructures
obtained by alkaline hydrothermal treatment of P25-TiO2powder during 18 or 24 h, followed by acid exchange and2 h annealing at 400 WC. As in the previous case, tubes
were obtained by both hydrothermal treatment times (18and 24 h). But in this case the tubular 1D structure wasmaintained after annealing. The insets shown in Figure 3
are diffraction patterns obtained by Fast Fourier Transform(DPFFT). The patterns showed well dened points, somecorresponding to (101) planes distances typical of anatase.
The growth mechanism of 1D TiO2 nanostrucures syn-
Figure 1 | FE-SEM and TEM images (left and right, respectively) for TiO2 nanoparticles obthesized by alkaline hydrothermal method from TiO2nanoparticles is still under discussion. It was suggestedthat it take place by the rolling of hydrogen titanate laminar
structures during the ion exchange step (Kasuga et al. ;Capula ) But others authors suggested the 1D structureformation during the treatment of TiO2 in NaOH aqueous
solution (Du et al. ; Zhang et al. ; Zhao et al.). Our results seem to be in agreement with the lastauthors because the tubes were well formed before the
acid treatment was applied.Figure 4 shows the XRD patterns of nanoparticles
obtained by solgel method and the products obtainedafter hydrothermal treatment for 18 h, with further acid
treatment and the nal product obtained after annealing at400 WC for 2 h. The SG-TiO2 NP used as precursorsshowed a XRD pattern typical of low crystalline anatase.After hydrothermal treatment the structure of the solidchanged to another displaying reection peaks at 10, 24.5,
28.4 and 48.3 degrees 2. These peaks can be assigned tothe diffraction of sodium titanates with chemical formulaas Na2TinO2n1 (n 3, 6, 9). In agreement with JCPDS NW311,329 and 331,293 we could describe it as a mix of Na2-Ti3O7 and Na2Ti9O19 designed as sodium titanates. Afteracid treatments the features corresponding to titanatealmost disappeared, being replaced by poor dened peaks
that may be associated with anatase. After the annealingprocess only anatase TiO2 crystalline phase was observedsince the samples showed well dened peaks around 25.3,
37.8, 48.0 2 degrees characteristics of (101), (004) and(200) respectively of anatase TiO2. It should be noted thatbefore annealing the samples were poorly crystalline since
the X-ray reections were slightly dened. After annealingthe crystal structure of the samples was well dened, inagreement with the DPFFT analysis (Figure 3). The crystal-line structures correspond mainly to anatase, although a
d by solgel method.small amount of brookite could be detected in all thecases. Analyzing the width at half maximum of the reec-tions employing Scherrers equation, in the direction of
(101) plane in the Figure 4(b), Q15crystallite sizes about 5 and16 nm around were found for the SG-TiO2 precursor andfor the rod-like structures, respectively. This result shows
that the crystallite size increased when the rod-like shapestructures were formed. Table 1 shows the BET surfacearea values of the different samples. In the case of the
TiO2 nanostructures obtained from SG-TiO2 there was aclear diminution of surface area as consequence of the mor-phological transformation. These results suggest that theconversion from particles to nanorods occurred by a dissol-
ution-precipitation process that involved the transformationof TiO2 to sodium titanate, followed by proton exchange to
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Figure 2 | FE-SEM and TEM images (left and right, respectively) of 1D nanoestructures obtained from SG-TiO2 powders, hydrothermally treated for 18 h (a), after acid treatment (b) and afterannealing at 400
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C (c), TEM images of tubular TiO2 nanostructures obtained after 24 h of hydrothermal treatment (d).
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through all this steps given more crystalline compoundswith lower surface area.
Figure 5 shows XRD patterns of P25-TiO2 powder andthe TiO2 nanostructures obtained after alkaline hydrother-
mal treatment, acid exchange and annealing at 400 WC. P-25 showed the typical reection peaks corresponding toanatase and rutile. After hydrothermal treatment the diffrac-
tion pattern shows peaks at 10, 24.5, 28.4 and 48.3 degrees2. As discussed before, these features correspond to a mixof sodium titanate described by Na2Ti3O7 and Na2Ti9O19.
After acid treatment the intensity of 10 and 28.4 degreepeaks was practically negligible while the correspondingpeak to 24.5 degrees increased to similar intensity than the
48 degree peak. These reections are usually assigned ashydrogen titanates H2Ti3O7 (Kolenko et al. ). Itshould be noted that both products display better dened
Figure 3 | FE-SEM and TEM images (left and right, respectively) of 1D nanostructures obtained ftreatment and nally annealed at 400
W
C. The insets are DPFFT of the area highlighpeaks than in the previous case. The main crystallinephase of the nal annealed product was also anatase, but
in contrast to the rod shaped structures obtained from SG-TiO2, the crystallite size for nanotubes were in the 810 nm range, which was much less than the crystallite sizeof the P-25-TiO2: 21.5 nm. Besides, as shown in Table 1,
the specic surface area of the P25-TiO2 powders is muchlower than its corresponding 1D TiO2 nanostructures. TheP-25 seeds are more crystalline than the nanostructures
obtained by hydrothermal treatment and even displayedsome amount of rutile. This difference is due to the hightemperature synthesis used in the preparation of P25-TiO2.
Clearly, the P25-TiO2 particles were also exposed to dissol-ution-precipitation processes that leaded to thedisappearance of the rutile phase. The new solid phases dis-
played a more disorganized structure with lower crystallitesizes and higher surface area than the precursor powder.It is remarkable that in this system the nanotubes did not
rom P25-TiO2 powders hydrothermally treated for 18 h (a) and 24 h (b) with subsequent acid
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of precursor (Preda et al. ). The low thermal stabilityof the TiO2 NP, may be consequence of the presence of ana-tase seeds after acid wash. These seeds may trigger thecrystallization of anatase, leading to the rearrangement
and collapse of the structure.The photocatalytic activities of the obtained samples
were tested via degradation of aqueous RhB under UVA
irradiation. It is important to notice that in the literature itis very common to report the beginning of the degradation
Figure 4 | XRD patterns of Sol Gel nanoparticles (NP) and the product obtained from itafter 18 h of hydrothermal treatment, sample with further acid treatment and
nally annealed at 400W
C (18 h/400W
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24 h of hydrothermal treatment is shown (24 h/400W
C) (A anatase, Bbrookite, T Sodium titanate).
Table 1 | BET Surface area of the different samples
TiO2 nanostructures
Surfacearea BET(m2/g) TiO2 nanostructures
Surfacearea BET(m2/g)
TiO2 NPs-Sol Gel 201 TiO2 P 25 NPs 60
1D Nanostructures18 h/400 WCa
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on the photocatalyst should be considered. In this case thedegradation curve was drafted considering the initialdecrease of RhB due to adsorption of the dye on TiO2 photo-
catalyst. As is shown in Figures 6 and 7 before theirradiation (t 0), an adsorption process of RhB on the
Figure 5 | XRD patterns of P25-TiO2 powder and the product obtained from it after 24 h ofhydrothermal treatment, sample with further acid treatment and nally
annealed at 400W
C (24 h/400W
C). Also the nal product obtained with 18 h of
hydrothermal treatment is shown (18 h/400W
C) (A anatase, R rutile, TSodium titanate, H Hydrogen titanate).
Figure 6 | RhB degradation for sample obtained from P25 hydrothermally treated for 18 hwith further acid treatment () and after annealing process at 400 WC ().
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mercial P25-TiO2 was measured to be 4% and 5 and 2% fornal 1D structures obtained with 18 and 24 h of hydrother-mal treatment respectively. On the other hand, absorption
was approximately 1 and 2% for samples obtained fromSG-TiO2 after 18 and 24 h of thermal treatment respectively,and practically negligible for the SG-TiO2 precursor. Theadsorption amount could be ascribed to the high surface
area of the TiO2 nanotubes and nanorods.Figure 6 shows the evolution of RhB concentration in
UVA illuminated solution containing TiO2 nanotubes
obtained from P-25. The results indicate that the annealednanotubes display much higher photocatalytic activity thanthe raw nanotubes. This phenomenon can be associated
with the different nature of the TiO2 nanotubes before andafter annealing. Only after ring the structure of the nano-tubes became anatase (see Figure 5), which is thecrystalline TiO2 phase with well known photoicatalytic
activity.Figure 7-a shows the photocatalytic degradation of
RhB in solutions containing SG-TiO2 NP, and annealed
1D TiO2 obtained from TiO2-SG NP precursor. Clearly,
Figure 7 | Degradation of RhB solutions with Sol Gel nanoparticles and the 1D nanostructthe photocatalytic activity of the 1D TiO2 samples ishigher than that displayed by the precursor material,
being more active the sample expose to longer hydrother-mal treatment. This phenomenon can be a consequenceof the different crystallite size displayed by the systems. It
was reported that a highly crystalline structure lead tomore active photocatalysts due to a diminution in therecombination of the photogenerated carriers (Liu et al.). In this case, as showed in Figure 4, the annealed
nanotubes displayed a well crystallized anatase structure.Figure 7(b) allows comparing the photocatalytic activityof P-25 with the activity of 1D TiO2 obtained by hydrother-
mal treatment of P-25 followed by annealing. In this case,the precursor material displayed higher photocatalyticactivity than the 1D TiO2 structures, even thought the
1D nanostructures had larger surface area. This resultmay consequence of different phenomena. By one hand,it was proposed that the presence of both crystalline
phases (anatase and rutile) in the P25-TiO2 particles mayimprove the photocatalytic response of this material (Suet al. Q). By the other, the crystalline domines of the1D TiO2 nanostructures are quite small (611 nm) hin-
dered the photo activity of the material. This effect maybe consequence of the presence of dangling bonds or dis-torted lattice structures that may act as electron-hole
recombination sites (Henderson ). Also the 1D nanos-tructures were not pure in morphology but were mixedwith particles of different shapes and even amorphous
TiO2. Despite the 1D nanostructures showed lower photo-catalityc activity than P25-TiO2, these nanostructuresdisplayed a reasonable good photocatalytic activity forRhB degradation since we have gotten the complete degra-
dation of a concentrate solution in 6080 min(shorterthan reporter by other authors (Zhao et al. Q; Thennar-asu et al. Q)).CONCLUSIONS
TiO2 anatase 1D nanostructures, with high surface area and
photocatalytic activity, were synthesized by hydrothermaltreatment. The structure of the systems depended on theTiO2 precursor powder used in the synthesis. P25-TiO2 pro-duced nanotubes that were not altered by the thermal
treatment, but the structures produced from SG-TiO2 col-lapsed after annealing at 400 WC. This phenomenon may beconsequence of the presence of anatase seeds in the TiO2nanotubes after acid washing. All the synthesized 1D TiO2nanostructures were effectively used in the photocatalytic
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RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONCONCLUSIONSThis work was supported by the Fincyt Project No 140-FINCYT-IB-2013, the Peruvian-Argentinean 2011-02-CONCYTEC OAJ Project and MINCYT-CONCYTEC PE/09/01, CONICET-PIP 112-200801-02533, UBACyT X003 and 20020090100297 and the Pacific Alliance Program 2013-2 through the SRE-Mxico. RJC is member of CONICET. DO UBA fellowship is acknowledged. We are grateful to Central Laboratory of Microscopy of Physic Institute of UNAM from Mexico and Dr. F. Chandezon for fruitful discussions.REFERENCES