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Tio2 Advantages and Disadvanges

TiO2 is a promising n-type semiconductor for applications such as solar cells and photocatalysis due to its wide band gap and stability. It exists in three crystalline forms, with anatase and rutile being most common. Strategies have been employed to modify TiO2 to reduce its band gap, lower electron-hole recombination rates, and enhance absorption of organic pollutants for improved photocatalytic applications. These include doping, decoration, and structural modification of TiO2 particles.

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Tio2 Advantages and Disadvanges

TiO2 is a promising n-type semiconductor for applications such as solar cells and photocatalysis due to its wide band gap and stability. It exists in three crystalline forms, with anatase and rutile being most common. Strategies have been employed to modify TiO2 to reduce its band gap, lower electron-hole recombination rates, and enhance absorption of organic pollutants for improved photocatalytic applications. These include doping, decoration, and structural modification of TiO2 particles.

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TiO2 

has proven to be one of the promising n-type semiconductors due to its wide band
gap (3.2 eV) under ultraviolet light [24]. Additionally, possessing high physical and
chemical stability as well as the high refractive index makes this material widely
researched [25]. Due to its electronic and optical properties, it can be utilized in several
fields, such as solar cells, photocatalyst, sensors, and self-cleaning [26]. In
electrochemistry, TiO2 based materials play a key role due to their high conductivity and
stability in alkaline and acid media. TiO2 exists in three crystalline forms; anatase and
rutile are the most common types, and the crystalline size of the rutile is always larger
than the anatase phase. 

TiO2 photocatalysts become widely used to treat effluent in the field of water
environmental safety, for that it possesses
many merits such as high photocatalytic activity, excellent stability, harmless to human
beings, low cost and so on.
However, the application of TiO2 photocatalysis is restricted due to the poor quantum
efficiency and the fact that it could
only absorb the UV light which is just 4% of sunlight.

When used in water treatment applications, TiO2 has a poor affinity toward
organic pollutants, especially hydrophobic organic pollutants. Several strategies
have been employed to reduce its band gap energy, its electron-hole
recombination rates as well as enhance its absorption of organic pollutants. In
this chapter, we review some of the most recent works that have employed the
doping, decoration, and structural modification of TiO2 particles for applications
in photocatalysis.
Several strategies have been employed to reduce its band gap energy, its
electron-hole recombination rates as well as enhance its absorption of
organic pollutants.

. Conclusion and Suggestions


TiO2 is a reducible metal oxide and strongly reacts with noble metals compared to other
metal oxides. For this reason, TiO2 has attracted much attention for application as
heterogeneous catalyst support in many reactions. It is inferred that catalyst support on
TiO2 with different structures might exhibit different physicochemical properties and
catalytic activities. Generally, pure TiO2 possesses abysmal electronic conductivity. It is
proposed that substoichiometric TiO2 is prepared in order to improve its conductivity.
Although the electronic conductivity improved by utilizing TiO2 as a heterogeneous
catalyst support, the stability was compromised after extensive polarization at high
oxygen electrode potentials. Therefore, another method that could improve electronic
conductivity
is to dope TiO2 with n-type dopants, including niobium (Nb) or tantalum (Ta). It has been
reported in literature that TiO2, with a/an rutile/anatase structure doped Nb, had a
significantly greater electronic conductivity compared to the native TiO2. The presence of
Ti3+ species was observed, which was induced by the partial replacement of Ti 4+ by Nb5+.
Therefore, in all cases, Nb TiO2 is both electrochemically and thermally stable, which can
further promote explorations for heterogeneous catalyst support.
 

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