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Modification of TiO2 electronic properties by means of chemical treatment (doping)
Zukalová, Markéta ; Lásková, Barbora ; Procházka, Jan ; Bastl, Zdeněk ; Havlíček, D. ; Kavan, Ladislav
The product of the reaction of nanofibrous anatase with ammonia in gas phase is nanofibrous cubic titanium oxynitride, c-TiO2N3. In contrary to the preparation of cubic titaniurn oxynitride from microcrystalline TiO2, requiring temperatures above 800°C, the conversion of nanofibrous TiO2 to TiO2N3 is completed at about 500°C due to its enhanced chemical reactivity. This conversion is fully reversible; the product of the back reaction is again nanofibrous Ti02. By the thermal treatment of nanofibrous anatase in H2 flow at 800°C for 2 hours the mixture of black disordered anatase, rutile and titanium suboxides was prepared. Evidently, particular phases can be synthesized simply by tuning the temperature of the treatment, which is a subject of the further research.
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Catalytic and photocatalytic processes on 18O-labeled TiO2
Kavan, Ladislav ; Zukalová, Markéta ; Ferus, Martin ; Kürti, J. ; Koltai, J. ; Civiš, Svatopluk
18O-isotope labelled titania (anatase, rutile) was synthesized. The products were characterized by Raman spectra together with their quantum chemical modelling. The interaction with carbon dioxide was investigated using high-resolution FTIR spectroscopy, in dark and upon UV-excitation. The oxygen isotope exchange at the Ti18O2/C16O2 interface was elucidated. The C18O2 was formed as the dominating final product with a minor content of C16O18O. The rate of oxygen-isotope exchange is highly sensitive to the conditions of the titania pretreatment. The vacuum-annealed Ti18O2 at 450 C exhibited a very high spontaneous oxygen exchange activity with gaseous C16O2. A mechanism for the 18O/16O exchange process is discussed at the molecular level. The photocatalytic formation of methane, acetylene and C16O released from the Ti18O2 surface was triggered by an XeCl excimer laser irradiation.
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