Structural and optical characterization of electrospun TiO2 nanofibers using titanium tetrabutoxide and titanium isopropoxide as precursors for photocatalytic applications

Glycol 400 assisted preparation of high contact surface TiO2/GO nanocomposites for photocatalytic degradation rhodamine B

“…In this work, five nanocomposites with different GO mass percentages (5%, 15%, 25%, 35%, 45%) were prepared. Figures S2(a In addition, the Raman spectra of nanocomposites exhibit the peaks almost identical to TiO 2 nanoparticles 144 cm −1 (E g ), 395 cm −1 (B 1g ), 513 cm −1 (A 1g +B 1g ), 636 cm −1 (E g ), which proved that the nanocomposites was successfully prepared [31][32][33]. Moreover, as shown in figure S4 the XRD patterns of the nanocomposites show almost the same diffraction peak as that of TiO 2 nanoparticles [34][35][36].…”

Review of the recent advances on the fabrication, modification and application of electrospun TiO2 and ZnO nanofibers for the treatment of organic pollutants in wastewater

“…Briefly, a solution consisting of a polymer, volatile solvent and metal precursor is prepared. Examples of some of the commonly employed metal precursors for the preparation of the TiO 2 nanofibers include titanium (IV) isopropoxide, titanium tetraisopropoxide, titanium (IV) n-butoxide and tetra-n-butyl titanate (da Silva et al, 2023;Li and Xia, 2003;Secundino-Sánchez et al, 2022a;Lv et al, 2021), whereas the ZnO nanofibers are commonly synthesized from salts including zinc acetate and zinc nitrate (Mali et al, 2013;Di Mauro et al, 2016). The preparation of both the ZnO and TiO 2 nanofibers using electrospinning also requires the use of a sacrificial polymer that is chosen based of its thermal degradation (Zagho and Elzatahry, 2016).…”