Journal of Analytical & Bioanalytical Techniques
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Research Article

Photocatalytic Studies of Tio2/Sio2 Nanocomposite Xerogels

¹Department of Chemistry, Hazara University Mansehra Dhudial 21130, K.P.K Pakistan

²Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

*Corresponding Author:

Dr. Zeban Shah
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Av. Bento Gonçalves, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Tel: 555134340123
E-mail: zeban.shah@ufrgs.br or zs_zaib77@yahoo.com

Received date: February 01, 2017; Accepted date: February 16, 2017; Published date: February 25, 2017

Citation: Yaseen M, Shah Z, Veses RC, Silvio Dias LP, Éder Lima C, et al.(2017) Photocatalytic Studies if Tio2/Sio2 Nanocomposite Xerogels. J Anal Bioanal Tech 8:348. doi: 10.4172/2155-9872.1000348

Copyright: © 2017 Yaseen M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

The use of titania-silica materials in photocatalytic processes has been proposed as an alternative to the conventional TiO2 catalysts, in order to facilitate the separation of products after the reaction. However, despite the large number of research in this field, the mechanism governing the photocatalytic activity of the mixed TiO2/SiO2 oxides is not clear. Titania-Silica nanocomposite xerogels were prepared by sol-gel method. This work has been used to describe the synthesis and the photocatalytic properties of TiO2-SiO2 nanocomposite xerogel. The nanocomposite xerogels were prepared by keeping the molar ratio of TEOS:TTIP:MtOH:DIW at 1: 1:6:14 respectively and the catalysts used were HCl and NH4OH. After the preparation xerogels were characterized by FTIR, XRD, UV and LLS. All these techniques show the amorphous nature of Titania-silica xerogel.

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