Novel Synthesis Methods and Their Application in Photocatalytic Reactions

1 Novel Synthesis Methods and Their Application in Photocatalytic Reactions 

There are a number of disadvantages for the above mentioned synthesis methods, such as a low yield in the urea method, the use of elevated pressure and temperature in the 

Functional properties of the photocatalysts obtained by these three methods have been studied in detail in order to assess which method is the optimal for the photocatalyst preparation. The photocatalytic activity that was evaluated by total conversion 

It was observed that the synthesis method, thermal history, interaction between TiO and LDH and the presence of active phases, greatly contribute to the overall activity of inorganic-inorganic nanocomposites. The wet impregnation of TiO onto the thermally activated ZnAl-LDH resulted with the most active photocatalysts. 

The LDH phase was detected as the dominant phase in ZnAl-LDH and in the impregnated sample with 1 TiO mass% (IM-lTiZnAl), whereas in calcined ZnAl-LDH (C-ZnAl) and in impregnated sample with 2 and 3 TiO mass% (IM-2TiZnAl and IM-3TiZnAl) the detected dominant phase was the ZnO assigned to non-stoichiometric 

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