Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2015,6, 605–616, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.62
obtained with a predominant rutile phase. The photodegradation of methylene blue showed that this pyrochlore phase enhanced the photocatalytic activity of the rutile phase.
Keywords: nanoparticles; photocatalysis; pyrochlore; titanium dioxide; thulium; Introduction
TiO2 is one of the most efficient
, where the amount of reaction water added was controlled. The method is summarized as follows. A stoichiometric amount of thulium chloride (purity 99.9%, Sigma-Aldrich) was dissolved in water (7 mL) to obtain a theoretical Tm/TiO2 doping of 5, 10 and 15 wt %. Then, this solution was added dropwise under
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Figure 1:
XRD patterns of the samples synthesized.