Air purification using photocatalytic technology

Porous TiO2 microspheres with tunable properties for photocatalytic air purification.

The synthesis of highly-crystalline porous TiO(2) microspheres is reported using ultrasonic spray pyrolysis (USP) in the presence of colloidal silica as a template. We have exploited the interactions between hot SiO(2) template particles surface and TiO(2) precursor that occur during reaction inside the droplets, to control the physical and chemical properties of the resulting particles. Varyin...

Are TiO2 nanotubes worth using in photocatalytic purification of air and water?

Titanium dioxide nanotubes (TNT) have mainly been used in dye sensitized solar cells, essentially because of a higher transport rate of electrons from the adsorbed photo-excited dye to the Ti electrode onto which TNT instead of TiO2 nanoparticles (TNP) are attached. The dimension ranges and the two main synthesis methods of TNT are briefly indicated here. Not surprisingly, the particular and re...

Plasmon-enhanced photocatalytic water purification.

Increasing water demand and water scarcity around the world requires the development of robust and efficient methods for water purification in the coming decades. Here, we report a photocatalytic water purification method using visible light (532 nm) utilizing 5 nm gold nanoparticles and their enhancement when attached on the surface of silica nanospheres as an inactive support to prevent nanop...

An electrospray-based, ozone-free air purification technology

Design of a novel photocatalytic gypsum plaster : with the indoor air purification property

This article addresses the design of a new photocatalytically active gypsum plaster. A hemihydrate in beta type is used as binder to design this material and a carbon modified TiO2 that can be activated by visible light is used as photocatalyst. An own developed test setup to assess the indoor air purification capacity of the developed material is presented. The new product possesses the indoor...